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Although the group will not work directly with the Burmese government, activist groups protesting foreign investment in Burma are wary of HIID's involvement, fearing that the groups' work will lead to Burmese investments by the Japanese government...
...long as [the Burmese military government] is in power, no investment or development assistance will help the Burmese people," says Marco B. Simons '97, an organizer of the Harvard Burma Action Group...
...defense of HIID's decision to work in Burma, Sachs adds that the acceptance of the Burmese mission was made only after careful deliberation and accepted on the condition that the think-tank would not interact in any way with the Burmese military government...
...matter of long-standing policy, HIID will not work with governments which are guilty of human rights violations, such as the one now in power in Burma, though it will work in nations where human rights violations occur, Sachs says...
Several PUCC-sponsored activist initiatives have met with triumph. One example was the push to convince Harvard Dining Services to stick with Coke rather than Pepsi in dining halls, which PUCC supported because the latter's parent corporation had ties to the brutal military regime in Burma...