In the weeks before he was shot dead while drinking a gas-station coffee in Phnom Penh in July 2016, the popular Cambodian government critic Kem Ley began a project posting fables about his country's broken society to Facebook.
With characters bearing satirical names such as the villagers "Aunty No More Farm" and "Beyond Regret" and government officials like "Do Not Care" and "Uncle 570" (referring to the model of Lexus preferred by Cambodia's elite), the 45-year-old medical doctor penned scorching commentaries not possible if he had used real names.
In the final fable, posted the day before he was killed, Kem Ley told a tale of how a team of lions, tigers and snakes monopolised the best parts of their garden-of-plenty by attacking any usually docile animals who wandered near their riches.
