Anlong Veng (Photo: AP)AFP
PHNOM PENH - CAMBODIA'S government said on Friday it was designating the final Khmer Rouge rebel stronghold a historic site for international and domestic tourists.
The cabinet approved a sub-decree to 'preserve and develop' Anlong Veng in northern Cambodia, the final centre for the Khmer Rouge before the movement was defeated in 1998, a statement by the government said.
Anlong Veng will be made a 'historic tourism site for national and international guests to visit and understand the last political leadership of the genocidal regime.' Among the anticipated attractions is the spot where late Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot was unceremoniously cremated under a pile of garbage and rubber tires in 1998, after he was purged from the movement.
Other attractions are a munitions warehouse, homes belonging to former Khmer Rouge cadres, and the fenced-off area where Pol Pot spent his last months under house arrest.
Officials have been planning since 2000 to transform Anlong Veng into a showcase of the communist regime's final days. The tourism ministry has picked out some three dozen sites of interest in the isolated hilly area.
Prime Minister Hun Sen also asked cabinet officials to compile a guidebook to the area and his 'win-win policy' to defeat the Khmer Rouge, the statement said.
The cabinet approved a sub-decree to 'preserve and develop' Anlong Veng in northern Cambodia, the final centre for the Khmer Rouge before the movement was defeated in 1998, a statement by the government said.
Anlong Veng will be made a 'historic tourism site for national and international guests to visit and understand the last political leadership of the genocidal regime.' Among the anticipated attractions is the spot where late Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot was unceremoniously cremated under a pile of garbage and rubber tires in 1998, after he was purged from the movement.
Other attractions are a munitions warehouse, homes belonging to former Khmer Rouge cadres, and the fenced-off area where Pol Pot spent his last months under house arrest.
Officials have been planning since 2000 to transform Anlong Veng into a showcase of the communist regime's final days. The tourism ministry has picked out some three dozen sites of interest in the isolated hilly area.
Prime Minister Hun Sen also asked cabinet officials to compile a guidebook to the area and his 'win-win policy' to defeat the Khmer Rouge, the statement said.
3 comments:
i'm for whatever is good economic growth for my country cambodia. i want to see my country become modernized and grow economically and more. god bless cambodia.
10:55Pm to have a dreamo f modernised, first you have to get rip off a uneducated stupid backward leader like ah Hun Xen and the rest of them who thing PhD with no scholling would make them smart!
I tellyou those motherfuckers CPP not any better than Pol Pot! Ah Kwack try to bring us to Ankor ERA!
10:55Pm to have a dream of modernise, first you have to get rip off an uneducated stupid backward leader, like ah Hun Xen and the rest of them who think PhD with no scholling would make them smart!
I tellyou those motherfuckers CPP not any better than Pol Pot! Ah Kwack try to bring us to Ankor ERA!
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