Phnom Penh (FN), Dec. 29 – A group of Cambodian doctoral alumni graduated from the United States, China, the European Union and many other countries issued a joint letter demanding the former leader of the opposition party Sam Rainsy to publicly apologize for insulting Hun Manet's degree from West Point US Military Academy.

In their open letter seen by Fresh News on Wednesday, the graduates considered that the degrading assessment of the quality of overseas education conducted by Sam Rainsy affected their honor and dignity.

"All of us, alumni of our doctoral studies abroad, express our regret to an old politician, who has degraded quality of Cambodian students’ overseas degree
as a second-class degree,” they added.

Sam Rainsy accused lieutenant general Hun Manet of obtaining the fake degree from West Point Military Academy.

Manet is currently a deputy commander-in-chief of the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces, army commander and chairman of the Central Youth Committee of the Cambodian People's Party (CPP). He received a bachelor's degree from West Point in 1999. He also received a Master of Arts in Economics from New York University in 2002, and a doctorate from the University of Bristol in 2008.
=FRESH NEWS