Cambodia's Curse

This book is about the early history of Cambodia to the modern political situation. I am on page 100 so I am going to make a quick summary of what has happened.
 The book starts of explaining the history of the Cambodia to show how Cambodians were mentally and we learn that they were once a powerful empire with magnificent architectural monuments. But, everything goes wrong and the Cambodian became self-fish and it's neighbours saw it as weak and that the people were stupid. Thailand and Vietnam were going to conquer Cambodia but the king of Cambodia has asked France to protect them in return for resources.
 Later on, Cambodia's communist party known as the Khmer Rouge started to grow. This party was built by a group of Cambodians that had went to study in France and thought that the current political party was unjust which was somewhat true as it was corrupt. No one knew, that the khmer Rouge were going to be as aggressive as they turned out to be. 2 million people died during this genocide and most of the dead were intellectuals. The country then got freed by the vietnamese and they had put Hun Sen in power.
 After that, the UN had come to rebuild the country. It is one of the biggest aid plan that UN had ever organised. Billions of dollars was spent but the country was not really improving. The current prime minister is still Hun Sen and he would do anything to stay in power. There are democratic votes but people are scared to vote for the opposition because if they were rich their companies could be closed down if they voted for the oppositions. The people were also scared that if the opposition wins Hun Sen might declare and the Khmer Rouge genocide might happen again. So, fear was very important.
  This book is really interesting as it is about the country I'm from and I learn a lot from the Cambodian politics which I had no information about before reading this book. The Khmer Rouge part also gave me an image of how horrible the war was and how people were tortured. My family on my mum's side had been there during the Khmer Rouge. So, it is a really fin book to read and I hope to have more free time to read it.