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...Office for the Arts’ (OFA) annual Public Art Workshop and the Harvard Human Rights Advocates (HHRA) will collaborate on a public art installation with the theme of human rights struggles in Burma. In three meetings, which began on March 9 and will culminate on April 17, the participating artists hope to create a piece that will visually engage viewers, while raising awareness and support for Burma’s current political situation...
Maya S. Sugarman ’12, head of the HHRA Burma campaign, first learned about the country’s political situation in a high school history class. She has since become deeply involved in human rights work, spending a gap year teaching Burmese refugees on the Thai border. When she contacted the OFA about doing an installation to raise on-campus awareness, she was introduced to Duehr to collaborate on a project with his public art workshop...
Sugarman’s HHRA campaign primarily focuses on the unjust retention of political prisoners by the Burmese military government, which has held power for 19 years. Among those prisoners is Nobel Prize recipient Aung San Suu Kyi, who was elected Prime Minister of Burma in 1990 but was never allowed to take office. One difficulty Sugarman’s group faces is that activism in the U.S. can yield few concrete results, as the U.S. has very little sway in Burma. However, the HHRA still believes strongly in remaining informed of the country’s political strife...
...Proust and Caesar. Europe is the continent that shaped the world forever. We Europeans invented democracy. Our civilization has had time to mature and reflect on its mistakes. We have evolved into a civilization that regards war as a terrible crime; is that such a bad thing? We criticize Burma and China because they are brutal dictatorships, and why should we be apologetic about that? (Read: "Should Europe Lift Its Arms Embargo on China...
Michael Rolfe, Birmingham, England Kishore Mahbubani writes that Asians expect Europeans to treat Asians with respect, not cultural condescension. Oddly, he castigates Europeans for taking a stand regarding human rights in Burma, China and India. Europe may not have a monopoly on open, representative and democratic government, but a cursory glance at much of the governance in Asia would suggest that maybe Asia should be asking itself why it has not won over European hearts, minds and investment...