Geography Archives: Cambodia

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen recalls Cambodia’s “painful experience” with U.S.-dropped cluster munitions in the 1970s, which continue to cause casualties to this date.

Between 1969 and 1973, the U.S. brutally bombed Cambodia, and the man behind the operation, then-Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, bears responsibility for more devastation than previously recognized.

The global labor arbitrage means the only competitive “advantage” available to most countries is forcing workers to accept slave wages and environmental standards low enough to lure in multinationals. If the population resists, the only means available to diffuse it is brutal repression.