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Book Review: Hun Sen’s Cambodia

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John Berthelsen
Nov 08, 2014
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In the western mind, as Sebastian Strangio so eloquently writes, Cambodia remains “nearly synonymous with the terror and mass murder that engulfed the country in the mid-1970s, when the Khmer Rouge seized power and embarked on a radical experiment in communism.”

The country has struggled on from that period, modernizing and tearing down its forests, buil…

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