Tales of Asia, Bronwyn Sloan : Accountability

For a 20-something boy such as this, already blessed with an education and suddenly imbued with a position he saw as pure power even if it was only a cadetship with a local newspaper, Phnom Penh is an oyster that can be opened just as well with an axe as a penknife. On his way to the top, he needed to step on his recent past to show his new power.
« Pay me now, or you will be sorry, » he said. « You have money. Don’t lie to me. »

Without a doubt the most thoughtful op/ed written on Cambodia, and above all on human nature, this year.