Friday, April 21, 2006

Tourism: Cambodia seeks to attracts tourists to Khmer Rouge stronghold

Tourism officials in Cambodia, have said the cremation site of Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot may become a tourist attraction. It is part of a plan to attract tourists to the former rebel stronghold of Anlong Veng.

The Cambodian government is looking at 38 sites in the isolated mountains in northern Cambodia where the Khmer Rouge hid in their final days during the 1990s. Other attractions may include a rebel munitions warehouse and homes belonging to former senior figures in the regime.