[...]Kofi's enforcers are trying to strongarm Hun into signing the Framework Convention for Tobacco Control, the Kyoto treaty of the anti-smoking crowd. Cambodia has a very high smoking rate. Only the other day, a bunch of elderly Khmer Rouge big shots were seen openly standing around smoking Pot. Well, to be more precise it was Mrs Pot who was smoking. Khieu Ponnary, Pol's late wife and Sister Number One of the revolutionary movement, was publicly cremated last week, but it's a safe bet her old comrades enjoyed a cigarette during the show. Had the UN held firm on its genocide trials, those chain smokers would now be behind bars in the Hague. Had the UN not allowed Hun Sen to topple Prince Ranariddh, Cambodia might now have a non-smoking prime minister. There'd be no smoke without that firing. [...]