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Case in 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...
Asian travel agents have long touted cheap tours to the country. And arrivals from Japan, Singapore, Taiwan and Hong Kong are increasing. In Europe, where boycott talk is fiercest, agents in Italy, France and Germany sell Burma on the sly. Only 160,000 foreigners make the trip annually. Operators are now going on the offensive, trumpeting tourism to a cradle of Southeast Asian culture as the best way to benefit the long-suffering Burmese...
...said the student government has passed a resolution denouncing any involvement with Burma and that the group is planning to meet with the college president...
...Harkin (D-Iowa), who provided the impetus for the Times article by providing unclassified State Department documents to the newspaper, has promised in conjunction with Republicans Jesse Helms of North Carolina and Mitch McConnell of Kentucky to introduce legislation calling to prohibit imports from Burma...
...Burma was known as Myanmar until 1989, shortly after military rule was imposed on the country...