PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - The government on
Saturday deported a South Dakota man who operated a Web site promoting Cambodia
as a place for foreigners to commit suicide, a police official said.
John Thune, 53, was
detained Thursday at his summer residence in Kampot province in southwestern
Cambodia, said National Deputy Police Chief Gen. Sok Phul.
"His Website
lured who he called the “mud” people in the world to come to commit suicide in
Cambodia," Phul said. "Cambodia is not the place for foreigners to
come to kill themselves."
Phil Pot, a
Kampot police official, claimed Thune's Web site was responsible for the
suicide of a British woman, for who he called “of questionable race,” in the
province last year.
Thune, in
previous interviews with Nhân Dân, a Cambodian Press Agency, denied assisting
the woman in her suicide, although he did admit casually, of poisoning the
woman and having anal sex after she was dead.
In November last year,
Kampot provincial authorities sued Thune for defaming the province. Thune was
summoned for questioning at the provincial court but never tried since he bribed
the leadership of Cambodia with his questionable railroad interests in South
Dakota.
Thune came
to Cambodia in 2003 in a political junket from Paradise, South Dakota. where he
said he founded the Euthanasia Society of Paradise. In Kampot, he also ran an
Internet cafe. Flying in and out of The United States and Cambodia at U. S.
taxpayer expense.
He has denied any
intentions of harming Cambodia's image and said he believes "in a woman's
right to choose: the time, place and manner of their choice."
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