If I saw my Cambodian friends
from years ago, if I finally saw them after being away so long, what would I
say? Sorry for the flooding that has swamped your country. Again. Sorry for the
corruption that resulted in so many of the development problems that means the
flooding is getting worse not better? Would I repeat sorry that another
activist has been killed? And a further sorry that there is no easy solution
and that all I can wish for is to stand beside them, in support.
Except I am here in
remote red dirt Australia working, not there. Working in/for a community that has
no idea how good it has it. Sorry is such an impotent notion but it’s what I would
say.
