Phnom Penh, Mar 11 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Cambodian government has decided to preserve 14 sites, that belong to the Khmer Rogue. They plan to develop them as tourist attractions. These upcoming tourist attractions will also include the abode of the Khmer Rogue leader Pol Pot. A government official on Wednesday confirmed these details. The plans to develop these places as tourist attractions have also been ratified by the Cambodia’s cabinet last week.

Mostly all these sites are based at the Anlong Veng region, and they would be preserved and protected from eroding away, and also from the local people. Illegal encroachment is a common problem in historic sites, and this would also be taken care off, according to the district chief Yim Phana. He also said that amongst these 14 sites, there are the homes of the Khmer Rogue’s leaders, a warehouse of the ammunition and even the grave of the murderous Pol Pot, who had died in 1998.

In the disastrous and bloody Khmer Rogue regime, around 1.7 million people lost their lives as they were executed, or they died from crippling diseases or simply from malnutrition. The infamous Khmer Rogue regime was toppled around 3 decades earlier (1979, to be precise) but all the same, its guerrillas keep on fighting in the jungles. In the guerrilla-battle, the last bastion of the Khmer Rogue was the Anlong Veng region.