Whilst I think respect and deference are positive, there is no honour when it over-rides reality.

My south korean friends were hindered from acknowledging the reality of north korean atrocities out of this cultural norm. I personal think that is not respect but betrayal.

I have heard first hand accounts of both N Korea and Burma and saw the film yesterday and can say that what I have heard from the mouths of Karen witnesses and seen on children survivors' drawings makes the reality worse than the film's portrayal.

Therefore, I view people who say the depiction of the brutality of the Burmese is over stated as betraying truth, not respecting it.

The film portraying the top brass in the army as cowards holds true to the whole regime in Burma who imprisoned and tortured a student from england for pro-democracy activities.

They were so scared of on little boy that they never even talked to him!

Perhaps if there were 10,000 little student boys who do what James Mawsdley did at once things would change?

If they were British it would be very hard for our evil government to keep siding with death in Burma and I'd love to see Texaco Oil explain how it helps freedom in Burma to the parents of these 10,000 whilst the whole country would finally be moved to boycott the oil company.

Of course the least honour goes to the British who promised the Karen independence from the genocidal lowland tribes and have abondoned their allies against Japan in WWII.