Concern as Guyana considers opening Jonestown massacre site to tourism

Project would turn former commune where Jim Jones and more than 900 followers died into a tourist attraction

Guyana is revisiting a dark history nearly half a century after the 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.