Thursday, February 09, 2006

"'What memory remains seems to be confined to the lost family and the lost village that for most now begin to fade into a private mythology that has little to do with the country’s fate.' ...The prospect of Cambodians’ remaking themselves as a people holds few attractions to a political elite that rules by fear and brute force in the absence of significant dissent." Article on the impact of the Khmer Rogue dictatorship on Cambodia today- Christine Stansell for Dissent Magazine