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...Burmese people and their land to foreign tourists. So far, the editors of the Harvard travel series Let's Go! have been unseduced and have refused to feature a Let's Go! guide to Burma. Next year, however, they plan to write one. A Let's Go Myanmar! guidebook would play directly into the hands of Burma's despots. The guide would help the regime exploit Burma's charm for its own ends...
This scene and others like it are the product of a new offensive by Burma's military government, which began with a "Visit Myanmar Year" in late 1996. The military junta of Burma--now officially known as Myanmar--hit upon a way to exploit further the country it has controlled since 1962: Western tourism. This government rules despite a popular election in 1990 in which the National League for Democracy, headed by Nobel Peace Laureate Aung Sun Suu Kyi, won 82 percent of the seats in the national assembly...
...real coup for Burma's military rulers would be to garner independent interest in travel to Burma. Burma's military government would like nothing better than for a Let's Go Myanmar! guidebook to help them dress their country up for excited tourists...
...editors of Let's Go! have acted responsibly in the past by refusing to include Burma in the Let's Go! series, and explaining why it is not included. A break from this tradition--a decision to offer a Let's Go Myanmar! in the upcoming year--would play into the hands of a dictatorship trying to market itself into survival despite the wishes of the people...
...that Shell has grown up a bit, we hope that it will be less evil and abusive," said David S. Grewal '97-'98, one of the organizers, refering to Shell's presence in Nigeria and Myanmar (formerly Burma...