Cambodia "Killing Fields" a Tourist Mecca

2 million people died as a result of genocide on this land, and it is expected that 1.6 million visitors will pony up big money to take a closer look.....

The 'genocide trail' covers Tuoi Sieng, Choeing Ek and the latest addition, Anlong Veng, Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot's last stronghold.

Pol Pot's shabby grave and a towering stack of his victims’ skulls are drawing a growing number of tourists, curious to see for themselves evidence of Cambodia's macabre regime.
Said Roberto Rossano, a tourist from the UK after visiting Choeung Ek, "The sight of these skulls absolutely shocks you, and it is just a fraction of what they did."

"Cambodia is known to the world for two things - Angkor Wat and the killing fields,” said Youk Chhang, from the US-funded research center, The Documentation Center of Cambodia on Khmer Rouge atrocities.
Chhang plans to turn his center into a museum, along the lines of Berlin's Jewish museum, which displays Nazi concentration camps and Holocaust sites.
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