Let’s check out Edubook writer Anita Saran’s advice on Asia’s most dangerous tourist spots:
Cambodia
For 35 years, various conflicts have been raging in Cambodia over the control for its territories. It is crawling with Interpol’s most feared fugitives and riddled with millions of land mines and has suffered severe deforestation. Although the numbers of land mines have been greatly reduced, every month, more than 150 Cambodians step on land mines.
In 1978, some westerners were killed by the brutal Khmer Rouge along with the Americans, Michael Scott Deeds and James Clark. The two were captured by the Khmer Rouge when they had sailed mistakenly into Cambodian waters.
Suspected as spies for the American CIA and Vietnam, they were tortured for over a month with electric shocks. Wherever western tourists go, they are trailed by beggars: the impoverished and disfigured victims of Pol Pot’s savage regime.
The countryside may be beautiful, but in many places, the bones of the victims of the Khmer Rouge litter the earth.
Although the Khmer Rouge is no more and some semblance of peace seems to reign over this country, anything can happen. Most people own firearms and The Forbes magazine lists Cambodia as one of the most dangerous tourist destinations.
This writer really needs to read more news and do more REAL RESEARCH. What is mentioned here about Cambodia is completely outdated. That was Cambodia in the mid-90s, not 2009.
In brief, if you know nothing about the place, stop pretending that you do. It only makes yourself another trash writer.
