Wednesday, October 06, 2010  People must know they have power
October 6, 2010 By A. Gaffar Peang-Meth  The Khmer blog KI-Media
recently has been publishing in sections Gene Sharp's "From
Dictatorship to Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for
Liberation," by the Albert Einstein Institution, that provides
significant guidelines to "assist thought and planning" in the
fight against dictatorship.  Sharp hopes his study on "how a
dictatorship can be disintegrated" would be useful "wherever
people live under domination and desire to be free."  Sharp
presupposes people who live under a dictatorship can distinguish
between a dictatorship and a democracy, and there are those with
a "desire to be free."  Enormous work and effort are required
from fractious democrats and rights activists who fight powerful
ruling tyrants. In Cambodia, deeply rooted old habits and
thoughts stand opposite imaginative, creative and innovative
thinking.  Some 70 percent of the people polled said Cambodia
under autocracy is headed in "the ri