Yesterday went to the cinema. A very long film about a dance group that tries to revive Cambodian traditional dance and culture. I never liked Cambodian music and dance; it is highly stylized South Indian culture, slow and delicate. There were stories of Phol Pot and Khmer Rouge soldiers.
Looking at the British Encyclopedia, it suggests that the emptying of Phnom Penh (phnom means “hill”; Penh is a woman’s name), which is Cambodia’s single metropolis, had the purpose of destroying the Chinese middle class. Like in Indonesia, overseas Chinese are physically indistinguishable from the natives, so Phol Pot sent to the countryside all the inhabitants of the cities, for their presumed Chinese ethnicity. I see ethnic cleansing everywhere. This insight of mine is probably wrong.
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