"A Khmer Rouge Goodbye"

[bixaorellana]

Like all of us, stories from Cambodia make me miss Our Man in Cambodia all over again. Still, this is an excellent article with pictures by Stéphanie Giry, published in The New York Review of Books:

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photo by Stéphanie Giry
The funeral pyre of Ieng Sary, Malai, Cambodia, March 21, 2013

[bjd]

I'll read it when I get my copy of the NYRB but I must say my first reaction is that people like Ieng Sary should not be honoured with flowers and funeral ceremonies after all their crimes.