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Subject: "The Fascist Disneyland: The Human Rights Disaster in Burma 1988-1993"


The 50 page paper by Dennis Shayne Weyker. He sent WordPerfect version
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                               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)