Snow wrote:Robby: Learning curve...I don't think these guys had CNN or BBC back hom in Myanmar to know about the previous incident.
According to Wikipedia:
"Several human rights organizations, including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science have reported on human rights abuses by the military government.[67][68] They have claimed that there is no independent judiciary in Burma. The military government restricts Internet access through software-based censorship that limits the material citizens can access on-line.[69][70] Forced labour, human trafficking, and child labour are common.[71] The military is also notorious for rampant use of sexual violence as an instrument of control, including systematic rapes and taking of love slaves as porters for the military. A strong women's pro-democracy movement has formed in exile, largely along the Thai border and in Chiang Mai. There is a growing international movement to defend women's human rights issues.[72]"
That may be true, but remember how things went in the old days? People didn't have internet so you would inform yourself locally or via traders and brochures of early travel companies.
If a Myanmarese is able to buy a ticket do Dubai and enjoy a luxury destination like this, you may expect any growing awareness of cultural habits and such.
But hey, you don't have to tell me that people are getting more lazy (or 'busy' is also a good excuse) in not doing any preliminary research...a growing phenomenon