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I ran into a road block when trying to write up some of the information on Lakhon Kohl, a Cambodian masked dance that has its roots in the Ramayana.

Apparently the dance is only performed in one village in Cambodia at certain times of the year. A lot of Cambodian cultural heritage, including Lakhon Kohl, was destroyed in the 1970’s. In additional the Wikipedia page is written in substandard English. A dedicated nerd and good citizen would work with some previous editors or even on their own to fix at least the English in the article. There are some other sources and a video on the Unesco “Intangible Cultural Heritage” page which are also good sources.

I’ll find a way to work around this. Maybe “edit Wikipedia source page” is a task that I put in a imaginary backlog that I’ll just ignore for the time being.

Source material:

“Lakhon Kohl”, Wikipedia, 31 December 2023

https://ich.unesco.org/en/USL/lkhon-khol-wat-svay-andet-01374

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