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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Bert Wilkinson and Dnica Coto

More than 900 people died in Jonestown. Guyana wants to turn it into a tourist attraction

Guyana Jonestown - (Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

Guyana is revisiting a dark history nearly half a century after U.S. 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.

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