The Lady of Burma
Natalie Lewis January 25th, 2008
A few of us from the office went to see a play called The Lady of Burma in Oxford last week. It was a one-woman show portraying Aung San Suu Kyi in prison in Burma reflecting on her life. It was a very moving performance, and brought to life much of what I have read about in the past.
Afterwards, a Burmese exile, now living in the UK and there representing the Burma Campaign, took questions from the audience. Of course someone asked the question about whether people should travel to Burma. I was interested to hear his response as the Burma Campaign have a Dirty List of companies they consider are acting immorally by offering trips to Burma, and as Audley begins with the letter A we are very high on this list!
The answer that came was that theoretically they don’t want people travelling to Burma on package holidays. BUT if the people travelling there are well informed about the situation, and have an interest in interacting with people while they are there then they should definitely go.
This gives me great encouragement as Burma is my favourite country in Southeast Asia, and I have made a great many friends there amongst the local people. I hope his response means the tide is turning here in the UK and more people will feel inclined to find out more about this beautiful country.
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