Cambodia/Southeast Asia:
“I am afraid I will kill myself, like my husband” spotlight on loan firms in Cambodia after Indigenous suicides (Guardian, 2023)
‘Killing us as if we were animals’: 12 dead after police open fire on civilians in West Papua (Vice, 2023)
‘They will die’: Tesla-linked mining project is devastating one of the world’s uncontacted peoples (Vice, 2023)
Cambodia vexes Vietnam with plan to divert Mekong trade via China-built canal (Financial Times, 2024)
Cambodia’s Hun Sen plans power succession to son, allies’ children (Nikkei Asia, 2023)
Scams, human trafficking thrived at Bokor mountain behind tycoon’s luxury hotel (CamboJA News, 2023)
Video goes viral after Cambodia tries to silence popular rapper (Al Jazeera, 2023)
Cambodia’s Indigenous communities renounce communal land titles for microloans (Mongabay, 2024)
EU, UN reschedule launch of anti-human trafficking project in Cambodia after questions about venue (AP, 2024)
Poetic Injustice: Cambodian writer Chin Meas could have been a national treasure, instead he works a noodle cart 14 hours a day (South China Morning Post, 2023)
Government shutdown of health clinics ends Cambodia Daily founder’s humanitarian projects (CamboJA News, 2023)
Communities are suffering under Indonesia’s coal-fired electric vehicle supply chain (Southeast Asia Globe, 2022)
Mining companies hunt for buried treasure on indigenous Cambodian land (Southeast Asia Globe, 2021)
Shirtless fried rice sellers stir fry controversy in Phnom Penh (Southeast Asia Globe, 2022)
Misc older work:
In foothills of Chilean Andes, a mining dam set off a years-long battle with residents (Miami Herald, 2021)
Conservation vs. Copper: Minnesota town debates its future with a mine (Christian Science Monitor, 2020)
A language, liberated: White settlers silenced the Wôpanâak language for generations. Nitana Hicks Greendeer ’03 is a leader in the effort to bring it back. (Brown Alumni Magazine, 2019)
Documentary:
A video of young Cambodian rapper Kea Sokun performing social justice-themed, nationalist songs goes viral in 2020. But these songs ultimately lead to his arrest and imprisonment for a year on charges of “incitement to commit a felony” — one of the most common tools of suppression by the Cambodian government. This law has increasingly been wielded against citizens expressing political opinion on social media. While the government portrays Sokun as an opposition-funded musician calling for an uprising, his parents argue that he was just a kid making music in his room.
Not Love Songs follows Sokun’s rise and fall against the backdrop of the country’s authoritarianism under Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen and the Cambodian People’s Party.
Jack Brook 