Why Unity Is Important.

SraedOk\talWm\;eSWKc\bYa; kWYn\eta\tiu.BaFe]kac\Fv^VWt\mHuliuAp\tal} n}> BaetWlk\etW.By\liulup\Niuc\mHal} Siutakiu kWYn\eta\sU\;sa; rqelak\er;Ta;B,;tapO" dOepm}F Ag|lip\liup}er;Ta;[Ps\[p^; bmaliukWYn\eta\[pn\er;Niuc\Biu. AKYin\mRHiliu. d^Atiuc\; p} piu.liuk\pOty\" d^liu Ag|lip\liup}er;qa;Ta;rtaAtWk\etaFKWc\FlWHt\pO" kWYn\eta\k bmaliuekac\;ekac\; mRiuk\tt\etaF Ag|lip\liuer;tak tKOtelpiulWy\tae]kac\FpO" teyak\eyak\Baqa[pn\[p^; qMu;KYc\rc\l} lWp\lWp\lp\lp\qMu;liu.rpOty\" el;sa;sWa[Pc\F [cim\;KYm\; Yes, you are right and your thinking is practical that all democratic supports from the world is not for all means of struggle but mostly for non-violent methods. I was worried about that as well. The truth is that we need to use all means to topple the military dictatorship in Burma. Events and events have proved that only with the protests will not bring about changes in Burma. The military is prepared to kill anyone who dares to stand up even if it is millions. It proves that it will even kill children and monks. I don't know why on earth our leaders have not taken all those facts into account. It drives me nut. We will certainly need people unrest but at the same time we will need other forms of means to support in practical ways. And to face the humiliation by the USDA and SPDC's thugs, we need to re-intimidate them. How shall we do that and where can we get supports? You know, there are a lot of people from Burma living in many countries. Not all will be willing to help for sure. However, there are a lot of democracy believers and a lot of people want to get involved and want to help the ways they can for the struggle. It would not be difficult for them to donate 10$ or equivalent money from their monthly salary. (We have been working with a group on the border which stands on the support from some friends working in other countries). Tamil Tigers have been doing it for ages. If we get supports from most people who are living in another countries, it will help to work more. It is more than enough to start the struggle that way. I mean we here is not this small group but the whole struggle. In addition, we should be smart to have a political front to attract international support at the same time, should have another wings that carry out other tasks. Only thing is that all should be together under the surface. There are many organizations doing that type of things. PLO and Irish groups are good example to look at. I don't know why we are not such developed in that front. We should outsmart in the struggle for democracy. Moreover, the truth is that some big nations support armed struggle secretly or openly if the groups are organized. Before Iraq war, US and UK were supporting Iraqi armed resistance groups. As you and I know that our groups on the border are not organized, developed, and moreover, strategy-less. Who can believe that they will bring about changes in Burma and that the support they get will be effective? You know how much support these groups enjoyed but did not bring anything on the table or to be frank not effective. They do not have strategy and they do not know what to do. They are just responsive and worst, most are corrupt. In addition, our leaders and groups are not very inviting or not

letting people participate in the struggle. The way they treat people is that just give us money and shut up. That is not the way to encourage people to get involve and to help the struggle. First, to get the support from the Burmese expatriates (What I mean Burmeses is the people from Burma. I myself is not a Burman), we need unity and strategy as well. When we have a lot of organizations, it diversify the support and it is not effective. The groups treatment of "just give us money but shut your mouth up" is not encouraging them to support the struggle or to involve. We need to change that. If they know that the opposition is organized and effective, and is welcoming their participation, they will not stop helping and involving in many ways for the movement. With so many organizations, many supports by the expatriates went missing in the middle. The expatriates do support to their close friends and organizations but most were misused and most were never acknowledged and recorded. Even with the support from the expatriates in the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Norway, France, Japan, Korea, and Singapore, if we are unified and united, we can easily carry out a lot of activities and outside international support will not be substantially important any more. Don't you think? I think we can even help the migrants and displaced persons along the border. That will also help us recruit more people willing to get involved in the struggle. We have been only preaching the migrants and the displaced people by mouth alone and we haven't tried to be the same with them. In Mae Sod and many places, we are like another class but not like the migrants and displaced. That is not a good way to be with people and to work among the people. In terms of getting supports from international communities, we can set up a channel to do some activities and the political and lobbying wing can take care of getting support for clandestine movements and social help activities. At the same time, they can start negotiating with the governments willing to support for all other means of the struggle. We might need to be smart in this area for obtaining all supports. If we are disorganized, it is harder even to have discussion with the governments to support for other means. I knew personally that the US government once look into providing military assistances but they could not find any group, which is reliable and which can be believed that it will bring about changes. No matter what, the US is still giving some forms of military support to SSA through Thai army as of today. Any government will not talk with us for military or support for all other activities if we are still in this disorganized and losing stages with no practical strategy. We need to develop ourselves first before getting support and we need to prove that we can be the one everyone can believe that it will bring about changes in Burma. We also need to strongly prove that we are transparent and we are not corrupt at all. Strategically, we should use every methods to weaken and finally break the military system in Burma. I and a few of us have some plans but we can discuss about those in later stage together with all concerned. All we need at this stage is to set up unified group led by collective leaderships and then, with all involved in each area can work on developing strategies for its areas. Then, all can work on overall strategy. I think, in this stage, if we all can start discussing with all people for unity, it will bring the unity soon. If you can start discussing with the people near you or anyone you can reach near you about unity and the needs for that, and all other people are doing in their areas, we will get united very soon. Most of our so-called leaders do not want to see unity because it may threaten their

whatever power and opportunities they are getting. We all have been urging them for unity but no one wants to do it. They may say shamelessly in word alone but not commit to it. So, we cannot rely on them and we need to rely on ourselves first and then, pressure them to get united. We may need to force them to improve themselves to be effective and efficient leadership. Different voices separately will not force them to do for unity but all voice in unity will push them to follow it. These are our visions and that is why we are calling for unity and cooperation. One thing I and all of my close friends can strongly promise with certainty is that we are not seeking popularity and we will never ever be taking leadership roles. We will work hard and take responsibilities but we will not be seeking leadership roles for ourselves and we don't want to be leaders. We want to be in a field where we can work with the people and feel the challenges and adventures.