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...Harvard Burma Action Movement (HBAM) President Mamie M. Thant ’04 said that the museum’s sponsorship of the trip suggests that the University condones the behavior of the Burmese government, which she says has committed a host of human rights abuses and prevented the democratically-elected Nobel Prize Winner Daw Aung San Suu Kyi from taking office...

Author: By Claire Provost, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Museum’s Burma Trip Draws Opposition | 10/6/2003 | See Source »

...HMNH Travel Program began in 1974 at the Museum of Comparative Zoology with whale-watching expeditions, but now sponsors trips to far-flung destinations like Burma, Scotland and Antartica...

Author: By Claire Provost, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Museum’s Burma Trip Draws Opposition | 10/6/2003 | See Source »

...international community has followed suit, deciding that constructive engagement with a regime as corrupt as the SPDC is pointless. Great Britain and the E.U. oppose tourism in Burma. President Bush recently signed into law the Burmese Freedom and Democracy Act, which bans goods made in Burma from the U.S. market, freezes the overseas assets of senior SPDC officials and prevents the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank from issuing loans and grants for the regime. “By denying these rulers the hard currency they use to fund their repression,” the law states...

Author: By Mamie M. Thant, | Title: Supporting Burma's Tyranny | 9/30/2003 | See Source »

...continuing to hold this tourist expedition to Burma, the HMNH provides the SPDC with hard currency and an appearance of legitimacy that it does not deserve. Despite almost universal condemnation, the junta will be quick to point out that Harvard, one of the most prestigious institutions in the world, sees no problem with its corrupt policies. This situation brings with it some amount of irony, since in 1996, Harvard came to the forefront of the pro-democracy boycott of Burmese products, when it cancelled a million-dollar contract with PepsiCo, then operating in Burma. Harvard’s protest...

Author: By Mamie M. Thant, | Title: Supporting Burma's Tyranny | 9/30/2003 | See Source »

Mamie M. Thant ’04 is a chemistry concentrator in Cabot House and president of the Harvard Burma Action Movement...

Author: By Mamie M. Thant, | Title: Supporting Burma's Tyranny | 9/30/2003 | See Source »

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