The Fall of Aung San Suu Kyi, Democracy Icon
Turning “The Lady” into a secular saint only helped Myanmar’s junta.
The Past Isn’t Past
Lumphat seemed forsaken by time. Stretched out along a bend of the Srepok River, this former town was now little more than a village, a mere sprinkling of civilisation in a landscape of red earth and pantone blue skies.
Pankaj Mishra on the Violent Transition to Modernity
At the center of gravity shifts east, Pankaj Mishra argues that the West’s own fateful experience of modernity is playing out globally
Power and Democracy
The late historian Benedict Anderson once reflected that voting was a peculiar form of political action.
Reading Burma
On four new books that complicate the international image of Burma’s emergence from a half-century of military rule.
In Cambodia, everything is different but nothing has changed
As is usual at this point in the electoral cycle, the Cambodian government is clamping down hard on its opponents.
‘Meet Kill’
When Kem Ley’s murderer was asked for his name, he offered a chilling sobriquet: ‘Chuob Samlap’ – literally, ‘Meet Kill.’
Cambodia’s recent history shows the need for a Plan B in Myanmar
It hasn’t been a good year for Myanmar’s reforms.
Yangon caught between city’s past and future
With sensitive planning, Myanmar’s old capital could be stunningly transformed
How a Brutal Khmer Rouge Leader Died ‘Not Guilty’
A verdict was never reached in Ieng Sary’s human rights abuses case. His story reveals the limitations of international tribunals.
Death of a killer in Cambodia
PHNOM PENH – Ieng Sary, a veteran member of Cambodia’s communist Khmer Rouge movement and one of the few of its leaders to be put on trial for crimes committed during the regime’s 1975-79 rule, died on Thursday morning at the age of 87.
Departure of a king, death of an institution
PHNOM PENH – To the boom of artillery and the crackle of fireworks, Cambodians bid a final farewell this week to their beloved King Father Norodom Sihanouk.
