Cambodia Furious Over US Demands To Pay Vietnam Era War Debt
Smoke billows from air-strikes conducted by US Air Force F-100 fighter-bombers in Cambodia, 40 miles northeast of Phnom Penh on August 7, 1970. (AP/Ghislain Bellorget)
Almost half a century after dropping 500,000 tons of explosives and killing hundreds of thousands of people in Cambodia, the United States seems to be demanding that the country pay back US$500 million in war debts, a move that sparked outcry across the political spectrum in Cambodia.
