It's really a destitute and memorable place. I hope it never changes. With their bare hands. One way was to punish every crime by death. This explains how 2 million were killed over 4 years, about a fifth of the population.
Human skulls are as common as palm trees in Cambodia.
They love their land and they love their people - and it would take brutal conditions, such as the ones the KR put into place, for the thousands to flee their country. Even then, many Khmers in refugee camps expressed regret for having to leave their land and country behind. Nor does law enforcement or anything else related to what we rely on so heavily here in the west - infrastructure. There is a different law, an inherent law - the law of the land. Their inherent law, their inherent ways, are what really govern Phnom Penh and Cambodia.