Cambodia Refugees Protest Food Cut
Cambodian refugee leaders have threatened to refuse food supplies in protesting a temporary cut in United Nations aid, U.N. officials said Thursday.
The reduction was imposed Tuesday because supplies to the camp, run by one of the groups opposed to the Phnom Penh government, were being diverted to guerrillas involved in a two-week offensive against government troops in neighboring Cambodia.
Officials said that leaders of Site 2, the biggest civilian camp along the Thai border, have rejected demands by the U.N. Border Relief Operation that supplies not be diverted.
Officials reduced total supplies by more than 15% after they saw four trucks carrying rice to military camps along the Cambodian border.
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