When Edouard Manet's painting Olympia is hung in the Salon of Paris in 1865, it is met with jeers, laughter, criticism, and disdain. It is attacked by the public, the critics, the newspapers.

Since taking office in 2023, Prime Minister Hun Manet has consistently trod the path laid out by his father – with one notable exception. The daylight killing of Lim Kimya, a member of the ...