But for her to speak openly would be to risk the fate that befell Khoma.
MOST dissidents risk the fate of falling into obscurity and irrelevance after leaving China to live in exile.
The PD can barely face its own members and after the recent shambles it risks the fate of the Greek Pasok.
In Syria, Achchar concludes, the rebels misread the lesson of Libya, believing wrongly that Bashar al-Assad would stand down rather than risk the fate of Muammar Gaddafi.
To try to improve competitiveness by raising environmental standards is to risk the fate that typically awaits those who try to ride two horses at once.
Try to force your own tastes in greatness on later generations, and you risk the fate of most Victorian statues: merely a convenient latrine for any passing pigeon.
Addressing an American Bar Association gathering on Monday, Mr. Pitt, the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, admonished lawyers to play an active role in preventing further corporate scandals, or risk the "fate visited upon the accounting industry".
None of the women will want to risk the fate that awaited 21 of their predecessors who were reportedly sent to a labour camp for talking about what they had seen during their 2005 visit to South Korea.
The new law is a major step forward, but because of low public trust in poorly paid traffic cops, who can often be seen taking money from road users for the slightest infraction, it risks the fate of other forward-thinking legislation in Cambodia: good on paper, useless in reality.
Now, with his popularity waning, Mr. Koizumi must defend that cap or risk the fate of Ryutaro Hashimoto, a predecessor whose government fell apart in 1998 when the ruling Liberal Democratic Party forced him to break a belt-tightening pledge and spend more to fend off recession.
