Is Cambodia Making Its Killing Fields Into a Theme Park?

The Cambodian government plans to develop this sun-baked, mine-riddled frontier town into a theme park devoted to the Khmer Rouge … The planned park is of a piece with Cambodia’s larger effort to capitalize on the atrocities of its past – and to tap into a booming global industry in travel to macabre destinations, known as thanatourism.

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