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...student group dedicated to opposing the ruling Burmese military dictatorship has denounced a Harvard Museum of Natural History (HMNH) trip to the country, saying the University’s expedition is giving undeserved legitimacy to the ruling regime...
...HMNH Director of External Affairs Philip W. Lovejoy said the museum’s leading of the trip does not mean that the University approves of the actions of the Burmese government...
...sponsorship of a trip to a country does not in any way imply an endorsement by the HMNH of the government, conservation policies, human rights stance or any other policies of a country being visited,” Lovejoy said...
According to an itinerary on the HMNH website, John Constable, a veteran HMNH trip leader and associate clinical professor at Harvard Medical School, is leading the expedition...
...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...