A TGI Friday’s From Hell

Let’s give the benefit of the doubt that the creators of the Khmer Rouge Experience Café (complete with a Khmer Rouge era meal) aren’t doing it for publicity and are sincere they want to commemorate, in their own way, the horrors of the regime.

Speakers blare out tunes celebrating the 1975 toppling of US-backed president General Lon Nol and the walls are adorned with the baskets, hoes and spades Pol Pot hoped would power his jungle-clad south-east Asian homeland to communist prosperity.

It’s still a bad idea.