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"The Fascist Disneyland: The Human
- Subject: "The Fascist Disneyland: The Human
- From: tun@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 25 May 1994 16:24:00
Subject: "The Fascist Disneyland: The Human Rights Disaster in Burma 1988-1993"
The 50 page paper by Dennis Shayne Weyker. He sent WordPerfect version
uuencoded. Below is an ASCIIfied version of Table of Content and an abstract.
If you have WordPerct and want uuencoded version , send me a note. It's
it 50 pages...
The 'Fascist Disneyland':
Anatomy of a Human Rights Disaster,
Burma, 1988-1993
By Shayne Weyker
For Dr. Edy Kaufman
Table of Contents
Page
Summary 1
Chapter 1: Introduction 2
Chapter 2: A chronology of events in Burma 5
The uprising and the SLORC era 8
Chapter 3: What are the sources of resistance inside Burma
to pressure for improvements in the human rights situation? 31
Psychological Reasons 31
Economic and Political Reasons 36
Chapter 4: External resistance to applying more pressure to the SLORC
government: Why have the ASEAN states and China been so unwilling to
strongly criticize or sanction the SLORC? 36
Diplomatic and Strategic Self-Interest 37
Economic Self-Interest 39
China 39
Thailand 41
Thailand and Bangladesh 43
Multi-National Oil Companies 45
Chapter 5: What needs to be done to improve the human rights situation
in Burma? 45
Afterword 52
Bibliography 54 Summary
After showing that evidence indicates little substantive improvement in
Burma's level of oppression since the 1988 massacres of democracy protesters:
it will be shown that two classes of causes have done much to hinder efforts to
improve the human rights situation in Burma.
First, Burma's protracted civil war and decades of isolation from the
outside world have created economic and psychological circumstances inside the
nation which make internal and external solutions to Burma's human rights
problem much more difficult.
Second, the perceived self-interest of everyone in good positions to
effectively oppose Burma's government leads them towards good relations with
the government. This 'everyone' includes;
politically influential individuals in the military, government, and
business,
in neighboring countries international corporations and nations with the
ability to exert economic pressure on the SLORC developed nations with the
power to influence those nations and corporations with direct economic power
over Burma into exerting economic pressure.
Self-interest has led this combination of actors into making it possible for
the SLORC government to continue to rule in the face of a huge drop in foreign
development assistance which the government long depended on. The aid was cut
in reaction to large massacres of nonviolent democracy protesters in 1988.
Burma's foreign exchange reserves, quantity of official international trade
actually substantially increased after 1988 thanks to the self-interested
behavior of these actors in the face of Burma's new open-door policy.
(p.71, Agency for International Development)(pp. 513-515, World Bank,1992a)
(pp.285-286, World Bank, 1992b)(pp.407-408, World Bank, 1991)(OECD)