However diverse or different we are, we all in fact are brothers and sisters.

And we all have a common problem, i.e., the ruthless oppression by the neo-fascist military regime. Military regime oppress not only on ethnic minority people but also on majority Burmese people. Under the military regime Burmese people do not have the right to democratically elect people's representatives to form a legislative body, and ethnic people are also denied a self-rule or autonomy in their regions. All forms of media in both Burmese and non-Burmese languages are strictly censored and tightly controlled by the regime. People of all ethnic origins in all areas of Burma have to serve as forced labourers in military construction projects. While ethnic girls are raped by the regime's soldiers in mountainous regions, Burmese pro-democracy student girls in central plains are also undergoing the same fate in jails and detention camps. While Christian churches and Muslim mosques are monitored by the military intelligence, hundreds of pro-democracy Buddhist monks are being brutally tortured in interrogation centers.

So, people of all ethnicity and of all faiths are suffering from more or less similar human rights abuses committed by the military regime and its soldiers (and officers).

The root-cause of all our problems in Burma is the illegal oppressive military rule. So our one and only common goal is to remove military rule by those neo-fascist dictators; only then will we be able to restore democracy, human-rights, labour-rights, ethnic minority-rights and religious freedom in our country.

But sadly, there sometimes appear a serious lack of trust and a huge lack of understanding among different ethnic groups and different religions in our country. Worst of all there sometimes arise in-fightings between different factions of the same ethnic group.

If we are fighting each other instead of fighting unitedly against the neo-fascist military regime, how shall we ever achieve our common goal of democracy and human-rights in our country?

So please stop fighting among different ethnic groups_ or among different factions of the same group_ and also stop fighting among different religions. And let us unite and fight, together in solidarity, against our common enemy, neo-fascist military dictators.