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BURMA: 'Be Young, Be Dead, Drink Pe (r)



Subject: Re: BURMA: 'Be Young, Be Dead, Drink Pepsi'

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> /* Written 10:42 pm  Feb 19, 1994 by wrts@xxxxxxxxxxx in igc:reg.seasia */
> /* ---------- "BURMA: "Be Young, Be Dead, Drink.." ---------- */
> For those interested there appears in the Spring 1994 issue of "The
> Boycott Quarterly" (Olympia, WA: Center for Economic Democracy) (pp48-49,68)
> an article on Pepsi-Cola Products Myanmar entitled, "Be Young, Be Dead,
> Drink Pepsi."  It includes a copy of a letter from Pepsi-Cola International
> dated 23 December 1993 on its 'rationale.'  Here's a sample:
> 
> 	Our decision as a corporation to do business in Burma is guided
> 	by our firm belief that trade is one of the best ways to build
> 	bridges of understanding between people -- bridges which help
> 	open lines of communication, find common ground, stimulate
> 	dialogue, and thus bring people and their nations closer together
> 	and ultimately toward world peace.
> 
> Andrew.

When we, The Burma Foundation, wrote a letter to Pepsi, Pepsi sent back a 
formletter stating Pepsi do NOT engaged in business with SLORC  and that 
Pepsi invest in people. It is a strange way to "invest" in 
people when Pepsi's dollars is used to suppress and wages war on the 
ethnic nationalities along the Burma/Thai border.

Coban