Elia Diodati summarizes the recent spate of regression by Singapore’s government.

“Even though I was only nine years old, I will never forget the 13th of January 1979 as that was the day I saw the Khmer Rouge run away from the village of K’dau at the base of Phnom K’dau where my family had been put to work in the rice fields since

“A mortifying lapse of security around the famed terracotta warriors that stand as they have for centuries — although now on display in a huge hangar-like museum. They were joined at the weekend by a young German arts student said to be obsessed with the

“They use their blue eyes to observe this red country. We cannot avoid it.”