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Khmer Circle: 

The poor are an eyesore to an authoritarian regime everywhere, aren't they? During an important world summit in Bangkok some years ago, the Thai authorities sealed their capital's slum dwellers off from incoming delegates with high fences!

Likewise, foreign visitors to Cambodia and Cambodians alike are urged to see only ostensibly pleasing sights in the country such as models of European architectures, gated villages, condos, cars and sky bridges as well as high-rise apartments.

The state of poor people and slum dwellers or their abysmal conditions hardly conform to such a regime's narrative of unprecedented growth and 'development in "every field", hence the reason why many of the capital's beggars and street destitute are routinely rounded up and detained at so-called rehabilitation centres outside the capital where their abject fates at least would not be so exposed to public scrutiny? Besides, when these folks have their sources of livelihood and lands seized from beneath their feet, the problem of the poor and poverty is then automatically resolved by itself, eh? 

^^^