re Infrastructure Finance Feb/Mar 9 (r)

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Subject: Re: re Infrastructure Finance Feb/Mar 9 (fwd)


On Date: 14 Mar 1996 13:42:49
dawn star <cd@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Free Burma Readers, =20

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>re  TROUBLING PROJECTS
>Myanmar's Yadana gas field raises the question: =20
>Should companies do business with regimes that violate basic human=20
>rights?
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>By Gregory Millman  (pp. 17-19)

>Lets see closer, as =91Prof =92 Donaldson says :

>Professor Tom Donaldson of Georgetown University, author of The Ethics of
>International Business, says, "In Burma the human rights violations have
>been systemic, widespread, and involve violations of the most fundamental
>and central
>human rights accepted by both liberals and conservatives."

>Donaldson is no knee-jerk bleeding heart.  (what does that mean? ed. Dawn=
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>Star.

I understand it as Donaldson is not sympathetic (although the writer of
this article or the reader might have expected as sympathetic) toward
those people who claim doing business with SLORC is empowering/ignoring
SLORC's human rights violations..=20


Tun Myint