Myanmar tourism sector strained by stigma of genocide charge

Tourists riding bull carts travel along a road across an ancient Buddhist temple in Bagan. Myanmar’s genocide trial threatens to weigh on its tourism industry by prompting higher-spending European and US visitors to stay away. - AFP

YANGON: Myanmar’s genocide trial threatens to weigh on its tourism industry by prompting higher-spending European and US visitors to stay away.

Widespread coverage of the case at the International Court of Justice again highlighted the plight of the country’s Rohingya Muslim minority. More than 700,000 of them fled to neighboring Bangladesh after so-called clearance operations by the Myanmar military in 2017 that sparked global condemnation.