Because I need to start tomorrow morning with no distractions – here’s the stuff that’s been occupying cramped headspace this weekend:
- DAS has done the best job of commenting on the latest round of press killings in Cambodia. I’m not sure why these don’t get more press than they do – perhaps no press killings get much press? Perhaps it’s because the Cambodian press is not more respected? Perhaps it’s just third-world racism? Or perhaps it’s just because there’s no way you could ever give sufficient attention to this sort of murder – the kind where they not only shoot the target, but then murder the man’s son as he comes to give aid to his dying father. Khem (Khim) Sambo and his son Khat Sarinpheata were cremated today.
- Not sure yet what to think about the recent set of news reports on the slowdown (or feared slowdown) in Cambodia garment factories. These stories have a cycle, tied to the renewal of quotas and trade agreements, but there’s always a lot of genuine fear and worry. This one’s pretty heartrending.
- Some jackass thought it would be a good idea to use the final line of a Khmer proverb for the title of his dissertation. Nicholas Farrelly over at New Mandala quoted it. Nice of him. But isn’t using the last line kind of like titling your dissertation “There once was a man from Nantucket”? (I know, that’s the first line – but you really expect me to put the last line in a blog post?
- Also over at New Mandala – a good post (actually, a couple) on the supposed exceptionalism regarding takes on the Burmese Junta. Nope, they probably aren’t any more thuggish or ignorant than other regimes. Maybe just worse at PR? (see also, Charles Tilly, Warmaking and Statemaking as Organized Crime)
- And yet another example of the end of civilization. Oprah reaction shots.
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