In article , mnc@admin.u.nu
says...
> > You are free to think and act so. We are free to think different. There
> > has never been a boycott which had any positive impact on the lives of the
> > people. The opposite is true. Any boycott will harm the people first, not
> > the government.
>
> What was your position on the South Africa boycott? Did you play Sun City?
The difference is that South Africa is basically an industrialised
society linked to world markets, so a boycott does hurt. But Myanmar is
a relatively isolated society with a rural economy, considerably less
sensitive to an economic boycott.
The generals can more or less hang on for ever, regardless of US efforts
to topple their government. But the simple people in Myanmar are badly
hurt by the boycott.
In addition, tourism is not a big economic factor in Myanmar, but it
helps the local people. Just to make an example, with the money we paid
to our driver he finally had enough funds to marry his girlfriend.
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Alfred Molon
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