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Visit Burma '96 - NOT!!!
->From: BTF@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Barton Shulman)
->Newsgroups: soc.culture.burma
->Subject: Re: Independent travel in Burma
>In <fb7c8949&9502280911.AA14023@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> tun@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>writes:
>Go to the Burma/Thai border and you will see Burma as it really is!!!
->Good luck getting there. When I was there, I was very tightly
->controlled in terms of where I could go. I definitely only saw the
->Burma that the government wanted me to see.
To get to the border, you have to go to Bangkok then take a overnight bus to
Mae Sot or to Mai Sai. Now that god-damn SLORC had overran students and
KNU camps, I don't know what the status is.
->However, that being said, I did see prison labor being abused all over
->the place, and many people told me that they absolutely HATED the
->government and that while the people seem "happy" by western standards,
->that is because of their faith, not because of the situation in the
->country. They are miserable and terribly oppressed.
At least you got the message.
Ct