Tourism a welcome boost after genocide

IN recent years Cambodia has developed a thriving tourist industry which draws thousands of visitors to its temples, particularly the vast Angkor complex.

Following decades of war and isolation it is now firmly back on the map for travellers in south-east Asia and is taking some of the tourist boom hitting Vietnam.

But Cambodia is still one of the poorest countries in the world and will forever be haunted by the memory of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge and the 1.7 million - quarter of the population - who died in the 1970s.