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French magazine, You are a little w
- Subject: French magazine, You are a little w
- From: cd@xxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1996 14:37:00
Subject: Re: French magazine, You are a little wrong on this!
It's clear the French are swarming in numbers to Burma as tourists (the Club
Med lost over 5 to 6 million dollars over tourist revenue lost in their
Polynesian operations,cited recently a Club Med spokesman here in Paris
during an interview last week with UVI, and contrary to news reports Club Med
is not negotiation to build operations in Burma) The Grands Reportages
magazine, however sumptuously presented in full color with excellent National
Geographic type style, is a tourist rag to promote tourism, and their
industry, and oddly did choose to kick off this year with Burma. One must ask
the editors how much they paid their journalists to vacation there, free of
charge! But David Boilley is wrong when he says that the editors, in all
fairness, did not mention "one word on human rights". In fact there is a
column with afull size photo of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, under pictures of her
father, and montks, with the caption, in french, "In Rangoon, posters of Aung
San Suu Kyi and her famous father". In the text next to the photo of DASSK,
she is accurately described, well featured, as is the political plight and
record of the NLD against the "junta" for having "the majority of votes in
the elections (392 seats out of 485 contested. Even if the junta has not
taken it into account, the young woman has a historical legitimacy without
equivalent. She received the NobelPeace Prize in 1991. Since her release ,
last July 10, she continues to to represent the hope of a new modern and
democratic Burma". This is quite unexpected ofcourse, in a coverstory that
nontheless, features on the frontcover "Birmanie, A country that reveals its
treasures". Its hard to show bloated corpses floating down rivers but just
the same, the editors did cite Burma, not Myanmar on the cover, and irritated
their counterparts in the Slorc tourist ministry, who probably read the story
while wiping the sweat off their pistol-totting holsters.
I did see the need to highlight this story, since every tourist agency in
france at this time is pushing Burma as best they can, and the french dont
give a damn, except an exceptional few, a real exception in this land of
refined cynics and false humanitarians.
I must say, that former French Minister of Culture and Communication, Jack
Lang, last December sent his highest personal regards of support, through the
French ministry, to Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. Not all of the French, are
indifferent!
dawn star
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> Dear Strider, please forward the following message:
> ______________________________________________________________________________
> Dear Burmanet readers,
>
> In its January issue, the French travel revue `Grands Reportages' has published
> about 50 pages on Burma without a single word on human rights problems.
> If you'd like to write to the editor to explain him what's happening in Burma
> and what does `Visit Burma' campaign means to the population, here is the
> address:
> Grands Reportages Director: Kevin Hand
> 9-13, rue du Colonel Pierre-Avia Chief editor: Yan Meot
> 75 754 Paris cedex 15
> ph: +33 1 46 62 2000
> fax: +33 1 46 62 25 31
>
> David Boilley
> boilley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx