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Chernobyl: inside the exclusion zone Thirty years after the world's most notorious nuclear disaster, Chernobyl remains a desolate, yet offbeat tourist destination.But to others, it's a vital lesson on what can go frighteningly wrong when maniacs seize power, cast reason and compassion aside and persuade the rest of the world to look the other way.
At the interrogation HQ, code-named S-21 and now known as the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, one particular story gleams like a beacon. Among its victims was the remarkable 28-year-old New Zealand yachtie Kerry Hamill, who drifted into Cambodian waters while on holiday in South East Asia, and was picked up by a Khmer patrol boat and accused of being a CIA spy.
As his younger brother Rob Hamill told a later court hearing into his murder and other atrocities, it was"a message of love and hope. And it was as if, whatever the final outcome, he would have the last say." Hearing his first-person account and of the courage displayed in the face of so much devastation and death, renews your faith in the resilience of the human spirit.
Down in South Africa, the world saw one of its most iconic figures rise from the misery that was once the notorious jail on Robben Island off Cape Town. I was similarly hesitant at first to visit the Atomic Bomb Dome in Japan's Hiroshima that somehow managed to survive the world's first atomic bomb in 1945 and the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, thinking it was going to be just too horrific to face.
Mistake or human stupidity? The War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City is dedicated to the memory of both the Vietnam War – they call it the 'American' War – and the first Indochina War against the French.
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