Treatment of Genocide: "Exploitation or Remembrance ?"

CEOCambodiaNews · Post by **CEOCambodiaNews** » Sat May 01, 2021 2:22 pm

"Exploitation or Remembrance ?" asks the man who wrote this article on genocide in the entertainment section of a blog.

‘The Killing Fields,’ the Khmer Rouge, and Nixon’s Cambodian Incursion
Entertainment
By Mac Caltrider | April 30, 2021

Nestled in Cambodia’s ancient capital of Phnom Penh is an unassuming set of five buildings resembling a high school. That’s exactly what Tuol Sleng was before it was transformed into something much darker. Upon closer inspection, the buildings reveal signs of their more sinister past as Security Office 21.
https://coffeeordie.com/the-killing-fields/

Note that this article contains passages of fiction, such as:

An episode of the documentary series Dark Tourist shed light on some of the ways Cambodian locals exploit the gruesome history of the Khmer Rouge. A short distance from the memorial at Phnom Phen, tourists can rent weapons, ranging from AK-47s to RPGs, and shoot them at various targets — including live cows.

That’s right — you can visit the site of one of humanity’s greatest tragedies, then choose a weapon left over from the regime to execute cows in the very fields where so many innocent lives were snuffed out. With an economy that relies on tourism, it’s hard to know whether to condemn the Cambodians for exploiting their own genocide or the tourists who spend money to participate in it.

Random Dude · Post by **Random Dude** » Sat May 01, 2021 2:47 pm

Something I've always wondered is, how do local people feel about the genocide being turned into a tourist attraction?