Cambodia: Khmer Rouge Hideout to Become Tourist Attraction

By Larry Habegger | Permalink | No Comments | March 10th, 2010 | Trackback

The final stronghold of the Khmer Rouge will become a tourist site now that the government has approved developing Anlong Veng in northern Cambodia. The tourism ministry has picked out some three dozen sites in the isolated region, including the fenced-off area where Pol Pot was kept under house arrest during his final months and the spot where he was unceremoniously cremated beneath a junk pile. Prime Minister Hun Sen also asked officials to produce a guidebook to the region that explains his policy to defeat the Khmer Rouge. No date has yet been set for completion of the site that is now visited by roughly 500 foreign tourists a month.

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