Category: Dark Tourism

Dark tourism is increasingly popular. These places could be the scene of a battle. an environmental disaster or simply somewhere where some unaccountable tragedy occurred. I have been to several such places either planned or I came upon them by chance. I will try and share some of these experiences. I hope they will touch your conscious as some of them did mine.
Dark Tourism

Rwanda Genocide – A story of survival

December 4, 2019 Angela

This was one of the most brutal Genocides in history. Several factors were responsible. Our guide told us that one of the most defining was during the Belgian colonization, when the different tribes, who were either Tutsi or Hutu were […]

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Anders Behring Breivik – 22nd July 1997 (Norway)

December 2, 2019 Angela

Its almost beyond belief in this peaceful land of trolls and fjords such a person and such an horrendous event was going to take place, but Brevik who was a far fight terrorist, was only getting started. On the day […]

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9/11, 2001

December 2, 2019 Angela

A date that conjures up the horror that took place on that beautiful sunny day in NYC. I had the good fortune if that’s what you want to call it. to be in NY the same week this excellent museum […]

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Security Prison 21 – S21 (Cambodia)

December 1, 2019 Angela

Security Prison 21 started life as Chao Ponhea Yat High School. In August 1975 four months after the Khmer Rouge came to power in Cambodia. The school was converted into a prison, called Security prison 21. It would have the […]

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Hiroshima – 0815am August 6th, 1945 (Japan)

November 30, 2019 Angela

In the early hours of August 6, 1945, Colonel Paul Tibbets and his crew set off from Tinian Island in the West Pacific. Piloting the Enola Gay (named after his mother), they were heading for Japan On board they carried a […]

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9th Fort, Kaunus – The fort of death (Lithuania)

November 30, 2019 Angela

The Ninth Fort in Kaunus started life in 1902 as one of the city of Kaunus’s fortifications. It was built during the days of the Russian Empire.  It was completed in 1912. From 1924 it was turned into Kaunus state […]

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The Killing Fields (Cambodia)

November 30, 2019 Angela

The day I went to the Killing Fields of Cheung Ek close to Phnom Penh in April 1998, Pol Pot, leader of the Khmer Rouge had just days to live. His terrible legacy lives with the people who survived. We […]

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Babi Yar – September 29-30, 1941 (Ukraine)

November 30, 2019 Angela

Those two days at Babi Yar  will be forever etched in history as the scene of one of the worst atrocities carried out during the Second World War.  SS Commander and Military Governor of the region Major-General Kurt Eberhard and Otto Rasch made […]

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Khatyn – A deadly response (Belarus)

November 29, 2019 Angela

If you go to Minsk then a visit to Khatyn is a must. Unfortunately it’s not situated in a very convenient location and is not well served by public transport, so unless you have your own transport your best option […]