# Cambodian Police Block Mia Farrow Vigil

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cambodian-police-block-mia-farrow-vigil/434244>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [January 20, 2008, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cambodian-police-block-mia-farrow-vigil/434244 "2008-01-20T08:20:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2008, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cambodian-police-block-mia-farrow-vigil/434244/1 "2008-01-20T08:20:49Z")

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Story [here](http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/01/20/cambodia.farrow.ap/index.html).

Basically, she’s in Phnom Penh to protest in order to persuade China to persuade Sudan to end the abuse in Darfur. What the …?

Exerpt: “Government spokesman Khieu Kanharith accused Farrow’s group of trying ‘to exploit the bones of the dead Cambodians’ to further a political cause. ‘Why don’t they just go to China to do that,’ the spokesman said Sunday.”

Indeed! We have enough nut cases in this neighborhood as it is.

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**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2008, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cambodian-police-block-mia-farrow-vigil/434244/2 "2008-01-20T08:28:23Z")

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And yes I normally DO know how to spell “excerpt.” ☹
