‘Into Cambodia’s Heart of Darkness’ - East Hampton Star

On the road to Kampot, Cambodia. Photo by Bruce McMaster

April 10, 2025

By Christopher Gangemi

“You go to school to become a doctor. You become a human rights activist after climbing the first 22,000 feet of Chomohunga (the Tibetan side of Mount Everest) in a pair of sneakers and then stumbling across China’s military occupation of Tibet, in Lhasa.

That’s the way Dr. Blake Kerr, who served the South Fork from his Wainscott Walk-In Medical Care office for 20 years, tells it. It was all rather casual and accidental.

Paying renegade Khmer Rouge soldiers off with Viagra and cash was a bit more calculated, but we’re jumping ahead…”