Pol Pot's Last Home Now a Tourist Zone

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Pol Pot's Last Home Now a Tourist Zone

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has designated the area where Pol Pot, the late leader of the Khmer Rouge spent his last days as a historic tourist zone, news report says Wednesday.

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has designated the area where Pol Pot, the late leader of the Khmer Rouge spent his last days as a historic tourist zone, news report says Wednesday.

The plan was not designed to glorify Pol Pot, said Deputy Tourism Minister Thong Khon.

'It will preserve the bitter history for the young generation to learn that anything that goes against the law of human progress cannot last long.'

Mr Hun Sen has asked government agencies to draw up a master plan to preserve Anlong Veng where Pol Pot died three years ago, hastening the fall of the Khmer Rouge movement that he had led for more than three decades.

The plan for the area, which lies just inside the northern Cambodian border with Thailand, will include the clearing of land mines and the banning of unauthorised construction.

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