Most western critics of the junta that has ruled Burma since 1962-violently suppressing the democracy movement and crushing human rights while dominating the international opium trade-have hesitated to visit the country lest the cost of their trip help to prop up the regime. George Fetherling shared these concerns. But motivated by a desire to see the situation first hand, he resolved to go anyway-as economically as possible. Setting out from Greece,...
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