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: This involves the difficult work of seeing the humanity in those we disagree with, aiming to transform the relationship rather than simply defeating the person.
To understand why expressing love in Khmer can be termed "revolutionary," one must first understand the silence. Between 1975 and 1979, during the Khmer Rouge regime, Cambodia lost nearly a quarter of its population. The regime targeted the educated, the artists, and the speakers of "soft" languages. During this time, the vocabulary of the heart was replaced by the lexicon of agrarian socialism and survival. Angkar (the Organization) was the only family; romance was often forbidden, viewed as a bourgeois indulgence.
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