Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Pol Pot porta fortuna

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29933064/ns/travel-news/t/tourists-look-luck-
 
pol-pots-grave/
 
Cambodia creates $1 million tourism plan to preserve Khmer Rouge sites
 
David Longstreath  /  AP
 
A group of unidentified Cambodian officials tour the cremation site of
Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot near Anlong Veng, Cambodia. A $1 million
tourism master plan is being finalized to preserve and protect 15 Khmer
Rouge sites, and charge admission.
 
  updated 3/28/2009 6:16:43 PM ET
 
ANLONG VENG, Cambodia ï¿œ He was one of the greatest mass killers of the
20th century, but that doesn't stop the hopeful from praying at Pol 
Pot's hillside grave for lucky lottery numbers, job promotions and 
beautiful brides.
 
Nor does it stop tourists from picking clean the bones and ashes from 
the Khmer Rouge leader's burial ground in this remote town in 
northwestern Cambodia.
 
The grave is among a slew of Khmer Rouge landmarks in Anlong Veng, where 
the movement's guerrillas made their last stand in 1998 just as Pol Pot 
lay dying. A $1 million tourism master plan is being finalized to 
preserve and protect 15 of the sites, and charge admission.
 
Included on the tour will be the houses and hideouts of the Khmer Rouge
leaders, an execution site and places associated with Ta Mok, a brutal
commander and Anlong Veng's last boss.
 
"People want to see the last stronghold of the Khmer Rouge and places
where they committed atrocities," says Seang Sokheng, who heads the
district tourism office and himself an ex-Khmer Rouge soldier.
 
Anlong Veng, he says, now receives about 2,000 Cambodian and 60 foreign
tourists each month ï¿œ a number that should jump when a casino is built 
by tycoons from nearby Thailand. A museum is also in the works, 
spearheaded by Nhem En, the chief photographer of the Khmer Rouge's S-21 
torture center in Phnom Penh, a major tourist attraction for years.
 
"There are museums about World War II in Europe and people are still
interested in Hitler. Why not about one of the world's most infamous
leaders?" says Nhem En, now the deputy chief of Anlong Veng district. 
The museum will include his extensive photo collection and even a rice 
field to show visitors how people slaved under Khmer Rouge guns during 
their mid-1970s reign of terror.
 
Like virtually everyone here, he says he took no part in the atrocities
but blames the top leaders.
 
"Pol Pot was cremated here. Please help to preserve this historical
site," reads a sign next to a mound demarcated by bottles stuck into the 
ground and protected by a rusting, corrugated iron roof. A few wilting 
flowers sprout around the unguarded grave site, which officials complain 
has been virtually stripped of Pol Pot's cremated remains by foreign 
tourists.
 
"People come here, especially on holy days, because they believe Pol
Pot's spirit is powerful," says Tith Ponlok, who served as the leader's
bodyguard and lives near the burial ground.
 
Cambodians in the area, he says, have won an unusual number of 
lotteries, prompting Thais to come across the border and beseech Pol Pot 
to reveal winning numbers in their dreams. Government officials from 
Phnom Penh and others also make the pilgrimage, asking his spirit to 
make assorted wishes come true.
-- 
Namib
.....
- God will take care of you. Whatever you need, God will give it to you.
- I need a shave. Am I next?
(Tom Kromer)

 Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot near Anlong Veng, Cambodia.
 
Da oggi Anlong Veng è stata ribattezzata Predappio Tropicale! Alalà!
 
PP

 Da oggi Anlong Veng � stata ribattezzata Predappio Tropicale! Alal�!
 
Ma "almeno" fosse una pagliacciata del genere... I numeri del lotto! Ma 
si pu�? :)


 si può? :)
 
I cambogiani sono gente sui generis. Quando i Khmer Rouge stavano
avanzando sulla capitale Lon Nol come estrema misura difensiva fece
tracciare un cerchio di sabbia colorata magica attorno alla città tra
il plauso e il sollievo dei cittadini e dei profughi.
 
PP

 Non a caso tu ti sei esercitato con gli stessi AK-47 di Pol Pot.
 
No, in Cambogia M60 e M16, roba di Lon Nol a occhio. L'AKM era in
Vietnam.
 
PP

 Sempre armi grondanti di sangue, turista dell'orrore.
 
Le gloriose armi dei partigiani antimperialisti!
 
PP

 Turista dell'Orrore!
 
Eh si, posti orribili il Vietnam e la Cambogia. Proprio.
 
PP