"You should never let your fears prevent you from doing what you know is right."
"I still oppose "Visit Myanmar Year," and I would ask tourists to stay away. Burma is not going to run away. They should come back to Burma at a time when it is a democratic society where people are secure - where there is justice, where there is rule of law. They'll have a much better time. And they can travel around Burma with a clear conscience."
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Source: Interview with Leslie Kean and Dennis Bernstein, The Progressive Magazine, March 1, 1997.
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