Tuesday, September 04, 2007

Yikes! First Tourist Photos from Naypyidaw -- New Burmese Capital City

http://www.sequential-one.com/blog/?p=895

Boing Boing says the pics are "strikingly beautiful."

Maybe so, but what of the people forced to live and work there, forced to help build it, the totally unnecessary cost vs. Burma's current fuel price hike and countrywide demonstrations and clampdown???

Burma has been known as a photographer's paradise -- also known as a "Fascist Disneyland" -- term first used by travel writer Ian Buruma in early 90s.

One blogger wrote he was glad the tourists could go in and come out again with their cameras.

Ha Ha (Very Black Humor)

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