There were two sides to Kem Ley, the beloved Cambodian activist who was murdered five years ago: the calm, insightful public intellectual, and the hyperbolic nationalist who wanted to rid Cambodia of “illegal Vietnamese immigrants”, writes Tim Frewer.

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Tim Frewer is an independent researcher based in Siem Reap, Cambodia. He has a PhD in human geography from the University of Sydney. His main research interests are development, agrarian change and climate change interventions.