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Guyana plans to turn site of Jonestown massacre into tourist attraction
2024-12-09
[NYPOST] Guyana is revisiting a dark history nearly half a century after US Rev. Jim Jones and more than 900 of his followers died in the rural interior of the South American country.

It was the largest suicide-murder in recent history, and a government-backed tour operator wants to open the former commune now shrouded by lush vegetation to visitors, a proposal that is reopening old wounds, with critics saying it would disrespect victims and dig up a sordid past.

Jordan Vilchez, who grew up in Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, and was moved into the Peoples Temple commune at age 14, told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named in a phone interview from the US that she has mixed feelings about the tour.
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