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...Thant said that HBAM is specifically concerned that the expedition may stay in goverment-owned hotels and visit places where the government subjects Burmese people to forced labor...
...don’t know how responsible the people organizing the trip are being in where they are going,” Thant said...
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...
...Because Harvard is such an internationally known figure, the fact that the museum is sponsoring this trip allows the [Burmese] government to appear legitimate,” said Thant...
...Thant said she feels HMNH has not been cooperative since she first e-mailed Lovejoy to voice HBAM’s concerns about the Burmese expedition...