Great photos of life in Cambodia
Brief summary by Ruom Collective (in words and images) putting some of the events of the last few months together in context.
While I am desperate for their to be an opposition party to end an otherwise almost dictatorial reign of nearly 20 years - has this opposition party got what it takes? Such change needs to live up to its promise ina country like this?
EU Fish Ban Blamed on Cambodian-Flagged Vessels
A little too close to home - our Landlord is named in this article (he doesn't come out looking good). But what I've come closer to understanding is that corruption is a contextually-loaded term. While it is still not (and never will be) right in my eyes to accept massive amounts of money for something that you know is illegal and, by my measurements, wrong - in this case providing protection to ships performing all sorts of illegal practices (drugs, trafficking, illegal fishing) - I try to understand it from a perspective in which you've grown up with it just being the way things are. We all have to accept a certain amount of that right? Would I be doing it if I'd grown with up with that as just being what you do in life? I thankfully don't have to answer that question. Instead, I guess I should be asking myself are there parallels to things I do/ ways I think/ presumptions and views I hold that people in other parts of the world would see as wrong, but which I have grown up with as normal? Understanding borne out of different perspectives has to be the start to answering these sort of questions for ourselves right? |
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