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...playing with a gun and violent scenes from Vietnam as a sarcastic introduction to the song Bullet the Blue Sky. The new album, All That You Can't Leave Behind, takes its title from a song dedicated to the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Burmese resistance leader Aung San Suu Kyi, and the liner notes urge fans to remember victims of Sierra Leone rape and war crimes and to support Amnesty International, Greenpeace and the children's charity War Child. These aren't topics you'll hear addressed at, say, a Limp Bizkit show...
...point: Burma, or Myanmar, the indigenous name used by the generals who annulled democratic elections a decade ago. Repressive and corrupt, the junta has managed to avoid blanket sanctions by the West. But campaigners are demanding a travel boycott, taking their lead from Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi whose National League for Democracy won the 1990 vote. She maintains that tourist dollars prop up the regime. Another deterrent: International Labor Organization reports say forced labor was used on tourist projects...
...state control of the industry loosened, visitors hand money directly to tens of thousands of ordinary Burmese who depend on it. Since when, they add, was isolation good for human rights? Think North Korea. And when did any leader, even such a beacon of resistance as Aung San Suu Kyi, speak for an entire party or people? The nld is split on the issue. The Burmese, who extend Southeast Asia's warmest welcome to tourists, are clearly happy to see them, not soldiers, on the streets. Some tourism supporters accuse boycott advocates of cynically trying to stir up unrest...
...Aung San Suu Kyi, the leader of the nation's pro-democracy movement, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize while under house arrest in December 1991, and remains imprisoned in his home...
AUNG SAN SUU KYI First, police. Now, family. Myanmar Nobelist sued by half brother over home