Cambodian PM blames U.S. for Middle East violence

Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen on Sunday pinned the blame on the United States for bloody conflicts in Iraq and other Middle Eastern countries.

Addressing to a group of youth at the Peace Palace here, he said that under the excuse of promoting democracy and human rights, the U.S. has inflamed conflicts in Middle Eastern countries that left hundreds or thousands of people dead every day and forced millions to flee their countries to Europe.

"This is the result of doing politics wrongly, and the wrongdoer is the United States," Hun Sen said.

He added that the U.S.-led invasion in Iraq, which had led to Saddam Hussein's death, has dragged the oil-rich nation into chronic conflict. Enditem