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From The Revenue Fields in Time Asia via Simon's World's Daily linklets 13th April and Privatising the Killing Fields at Macam-Macam.

According to a contract signed on March 18, the new operator, [the Japanese firm] JC Royal Co., is expected to "increase revenue for the state and develop and renovate the beauty of Choeung Ek killing fields." JC Royal is to pay the municipality of Phnom Penh $15,000 a year. In return, it will be allowed to jack up entrance fees, charging foreign visitors up to $3 instead of the current 50 cents.

The 30-year deal, which came into effect on April 1, was kept secret until Neang Say ['general manager of the Choeung Ek genocide memorial' and 'one of the first people to bring Choeung Ek's horrors to the attention of the invading Vietnamese and the outside world'] , 42, blew the whistle. Sitting in his small office next to the killing fields' souvenir shop, he says: "I want the world to know that Cambodia has become a place where they use the bones of the dead to make business."

The government reacted defensively to news reports about the contract. On Thursday, the country's powerful Council of Ministers released a statement that Chea Vandeth, Cabinet Chief for Prime Minister Hun Sen, was the chairman of JC Royal, and that he would donate any profit from the killing fields to the Sun Fund, a philanthropic organization established by the Prime Minister in 2002.

I'm feeling nauseous.