The history here is very clear. Hunsen (the current dictator) jumped ship during pol pots cleanse and came back with Vietnamese and got installed as a savior dictator. Cambodia never had freedom of press or education since then and Thailand "stole our culture" has been thought in school curriculum ever since. It's hard to feel anything but pitty towards Cambodians as resisting this amount of authoritarian brain wash is almost impossible.

What is making things worse is rest of the world abandoning Cambodia which justifies scam centers profits as there no other source of income. Cambodia is right next to relatively rich Thailand but has nothing to show - its easy to see how nationalism explodes in such conditions.