Welcome to Khmer Rouge Land!
Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 09.18.03 | 9:34 PM ET
Backpackers who have visited Cambodia in recent years already know about some of the country’s odd attempts to exploit its genocide past for tourist dollars—“Hey, wanna fire an automatic rifle just like we did in Pol Pot times?”—but the country is going even further now. The BBC is reporting a new plan to cash in on the ugly history that calls for rebuilding some of Pol Pot’s old homes. Doing so shouldn’t be too tough, the article notes, because the original carpenters are still around. I can already imagine the backpackers lining up for admission tickets. For more on Cambodia’s weird tourism scene, stay tuned to World Hum. A dispatch from Cambodia is in the works.
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Jim Benning is the editor and co-founder of World Hum.
