Donnie's letter
(Sorry, but the scan of the actual letter didn't work, so I had to type it out.)

I am very happy to write a letter to you. My name is Htee Doh. My nickname is Don. I am fourteen years old. Now I live in jungle in Burma.

I can speak and write English and Karen. I also learn Thai, but I can't understand it as good as English. I started learning Thai only for the last year, so I cannot understand it all. Because of the fighting between the Karen and Burmese I had to hide in jungle as a soldier.

My father is a soldier. I didn't stay with him because he always go down to the front line. My mother was in the refugee camp. She stayed with my two brothers and one sister.

I want to go to school, but my parent couldn't support me. I am praying for God to open the way for me to go to school. In the last year I am Grade 7. We didn't finish our school because of the DKBA. If you help me to go to school, I will be very thankful to you. If I have a chance in my life, I want to be an engineer. I write this letter by my own hand. May God bless you always.

Your sincerely, Htee Doh

(Donnie did get a chance to go to school, and is now twenty. As background, many of the Karen are Christian. The DKBA is a group of Buddhist Karen who defected to the dictatorship.)

What they are fighting for

- Their right to self-determination
- Their land
- Their families
- Their culture
- Their lives

Three company boards
(The scans of these didn't work out either. I was going to put them next to the photos of the three soldiers who have been killed.)

1. Photo of Roger Beach, at that time Chairman, President and CEO of Unocal

1995 Pay

Salary - $718,333
Bonus - 211,593
Restricted stock award - 250,210
LTIP payout - 243,590
All other - 9,000

Total - $1,432,726

Stock option shares - 60,000
LTIP award units - 20,000

2. Photo of Dick Cheney, at the time Chairman, President and CEO of Halliburton

1995 Pay

Salary * - $250,000
Bonus * - 150,000
Restricted stock award - 4,175,000
All other - 142,500

Total - $4,717,500

Stock option shares - 200,000

* Cheney was a new hire. The former chairman received $1,925,000 in salary and bonus in 1995.

3. Wayne Calloway, at that time Chairman and CEO of PepsiCo

1995 Pay

Salary - $925,000
Bonus - 2,425,000
Other annual - 103,324

Total - $3,453,234

Stock option shares * - 5,801

* 1994: 359,276 shares

(Under pressure from student activists in the U.S., PepsiCo ended its operations in Burma. Unocal and Halliburton are still active there.)

Untitled board

SLORC soldiers could line up 1,000 Burmese, including women and children - with the cameras of the world press rolling, and then slaughter them.

The soldiers could even rape the women first, for everyone to see.

It wouldn't matter.

The CEOs of Unocal, Arco, Texaco, almost any large corporation, would still say it was a good idea to do business with the dictatorship. Working with criminals, with mass murderers, is simply the ordinary course of business for them.

Just ask George David, CEO of UnitedTechnologies, chairman of the U.S./ASEAN Business Council, and one of the leading proponents of constructive engagement with SLORC.

(Arco, Texaco and United Technologies have also since divested.)

Untitled board

A man motions to you as you walk down an alley. A new forty inch television, still in its carton, sits on the pavement.

"Hey man. Do you want to buy a TV? Only $100."

It obviously is stolen, and if you buy it you are guilty of receiving stolen property. This is a felony.

If you hired the thief, you are guilty of conspiracy.

If someone was killed during the robbery, you are an accessory to murder.

In America, you would go to jail for this.

For business dealings with the dictators of the world, it's our government's policy.

SLORC/Multi-national dialogue

SLORC: Have I got a deal for you. Give me a million, and I'll double it in a year. With no risk.

MNC: That's impossible. Is this a con?

SLORC: NO! It's not a con. It's absolutely guaranteed.

MNC: What's the catch?

SLORC: Well, you have to deal with me, and I'm a murderer, actually, a mass murderer. And I imprison people without cause, torture them, force them into slave labor, burn down villages, rape women. Is that a problem?

MNC: NO! We'll just call it "Constructive Engagement." That always works. Say, if I use the slave labor, how much does that increase my profit?