(A) Your brother-in-law should be ashamed of working for a company earning money for the military dictatorship. Foreign investment in Burma is just what the military needs to ensure equipment for the soldiers to oppress the citizens.
(B) I have been pushing for complete and total sanctions against Burma since the house arrest of Aung San Suu Kyi in 1990. I participated in the boycott of Pepsi that forced them to pull their bottle factories out of the country. In no way should we as consumers be giving our money to military dictatorships (though many of us have no choice when it comes to China, but I am doing my best - everything I am wearing today was made in Canada except my shoes which were made in the US).
Just because some crumbs fall down to the people doesn't mean we should be handing millions over to a brutal regime.
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