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U.S. President Barack Obama toasts with Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen at the East Asia Summit Dinner during the East Asia Summit at the Diamond Island Convention Center in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Monday, Nov. 19, 2012. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

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President Obama returns a greeting to Bun Rany, wife of Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, (center) before a gala dinner in Phnom Penh on Monday. Mr. Obama was in Cambodia on the final leg of his three-country tour of Southeast Asia. Below: Hun Sen, here in 1996, examines a grenade launcher reportedly surrendered by Khmer Rouge rebels. Hun Sen’s reputation for violence owes much to the fact that he staged a 1997 coup against his own coalition government. (Associated Press)

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President Obama toasts with Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen at the East Asia Summit Dinner during the East Asia Summit at the Diamond Island Convention Center in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on Nov. 19, 2012. (Associated Press)

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From left, Thein Sein, president of Myanmar; Benigno Aquino III, president of the Philippines; Lee Hsien Loong, prime minister of Singapore; Yingluck Shinawatra, prime minister of Thailand; Nguyen Tan Dung, prime minister of Vietnam; and Hun Sen, prime minister of Cambodia, join hands after a signing ceremony of adoption of the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration during a summit for the association in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on Sunday. (Associated Press)

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Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen, left, shakes hands with ASEAN Secretary-General Surin Pitsuwan as Hun Sen handed over a signed document to Surin after the singing ceremony of adoption of the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration during the 21st Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or ASEAN Summit in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Sunday, Nov. 18, 2012. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

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Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen (right) talks with Thein Sein, Myanmar's president, in Phnom Penh on Monday before the welcome dinner ahead of the 20th ASEAN Summit slated for Tuesday and Wednesday in Cambodia. (Associated Press)

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Prime Minister Hun Sen sought U.N. help in the late 1990s to create the "killing fields" tribunal, though he didn't want a fully international court.