DWA: "Any balanced tabulation/survey of holocausts, though, will necessarily include the Cambodian 1970s tragendy.

Admittedly Cambodian film producers in either Hollywood or Bollywood are rare or absent."

Why is this so? Are Cambodians intrinsically less imaginative than Americans and Indians. To what extent is the "personal accident" of the existence of local affinity with capital and markets in the lives of the imaginative the major factor determinant?

In the case of the destruction of the Big Buddha by the Taliban, is it not "incontrovertibly probable" that invasions by both Soviets and NATO must have heated the ancient temptation of local religionists convinced of the sacrilege of making graven images of God (a conviction shared by Orthodox Jews who, I understand, make up a majority of Israeli settlers in disputed Palestinian lands) to a point where they acted with dynamite?