Cambodia’s massive income disparities were the Achilles’ heel of the CPP: senior government officials and well-connected business figures had become extraordinarily wealthy, leaving the mass of the population far behind. Linked to these disparities were issues of land-grabbing, endemic corruption, and official impunity. The ruling party had paid lip service to these issues. Piecemeal responses had included dispatching groups of university students to undertake land title projects on rural areas, instead of supporting a credible and systematic nationwide program of land registration as urged by international donors. The government’s heavy-handed suppression of dissent over land-grabbing was aptly symbolized by the widely condemned December 2012 jailing of Yorm Bopha, a young mother who played a leading role in