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...have come under particular pressure because of protests by the country's Nobel prizewinning opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, who is under house arrest. Most U.S. companies heeded her call in the 1990s to sever ties with Burma because foreign investment lends legitimacy and economic support to the junta. In 1997, Congress outlawed all new U.S. investment there, and President Bush imposed further sanctions this summer. Many European companies have also pulled out, including Premier Oil, the French hotel chain Accor and, last month, British American Tobacco. Total and Unocal argue that their presence has a positive effect. Infant...
...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...
...Five days later, the new Prime Minister gave an encouraging clue by delivering a speech with a reformist message. He announced a seven point "roadmap for democracy" that envisaged a new constitution and the first national elections since 1990, when the junta overturned a landslide by the National League for Democracy and put the party's leader, Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi, under house arrest for six years. Khin Nyunt was vague, however, on such crucial details as when the elections would be held...
...known hard-liner. A vital piece of the puzzle is missing, though: Khin Nyunt may be Prime Minister, but if he was forced to resign as head of military intelligence, he'll have lost his power base. For now, that's a detail only the junta knows for sure...
...possible injury, the government has been running a series of spiteful anti-Suu Kyi articles on the front pages of its state-run newspapers. These stories, supposedly written by a disillusioned NLD insider, blame Suu Kyi for the May clash, call her "willful and hard-headed" and praise the junta profusely: "Whatever the provocation, responsible leaders of the present government, preferring to act with forbearance, and on the basis of give and take, have always chosen to take action in moderation." Though few Burmese find the articles believable, many find them entertaining. "Some of the stories they told were...