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Braving Land Mines to See Pol Pot's Grave.(Brief Article)

Newsweek International

| February 25, 2002 | Cochrane, Joe | COPYRIGHT 2002 Newsweek, Inc. All rights reserved. Any reuse, distribution or alteration without express written permission of Newsweek is prohibited. For permission: www.newsweek.com. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Pol Pot, the murderous Khmer Rouge leader, died in 1998 and was cremated on a pile of old trash in Anlong Veng. Now Phnom Penh officials hope to turn that burned-out garbage pile--in the middle of a malaria-ridden jungle--into a tourist gold mine. They have their work cut out for them: there are no hotels or telephones in the region, the roads are impassable in the rainy season and the jungle is strewn with land mines.

Even so, there may be a market ...

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