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Article: DEFIANT HUN SEN FLAUNTS CUTOFF OF AID.(News)

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July 12, 1997
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Coup leader Hun Sen defied world pressure and pushed ahead yesterday with his takeover of Cambodia, undeterred by a cutoff of aid that has kept the desperately poor country afloat.

Cambodia relies on foreign aid for more than half of its national budget.

The United States, Japan and Germany halted aid to Cambodia to punish Hun Sen for shattering the government created in 1993 elections, the result of the most costly United Nations peacekeeping mission in history.

Cambodia's Asian neighbors showed their displeasure with Hun Sen's violent weekend coup by taking back their invitation to join the regional trading bloc.

``In the past, we ...

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