Good example of why one needs a powerful protector when moving through the social spaces of many cultures (traditional patron client relations, cultural fixture for hundreds of years, abstract rights being irrelevant) as Matthew McDaniel’s work often shows, you can be shot in the head, dumped in the river, and then have the level of local “karuna” regarding your plight be something like: “som nam na” (just deserts), being an idealist: transparency, media penetration, democratic feedback, leading to appearance equals reality, is the only way forward from these horrible hidden histories/transcripts (cf James Scotts book), believe me there are a lot worse incidents than this that never see the light of day