I understand what you're saying, and again here's one of those difficult things, because the military regime was also an armed conflict group before they took off their military garbs and put on the three-piece suits, bought up all the land, and got voted in. You have to understand that out of the 600 seats, probably 550 of those seats are maintained by previous military or military. So what happens is that you have in a sense a stronger armed group trying to now overtake a smaller armed group, the Kachin, who have been there for 50 or 60 years and trying to....
It's not that they didn't want to work with it. When I was living there, there were many meetings between the Burmese and the Kachin to try to resolve these things. One of the things that they tried to do is say they'll let the Kachin be border guards but they won't allow them to have any high positions in the army. They can just be border guards. We will tell them what to do, where to go, and how to fight for us. The Kachin were saying, no, we want to be able to have an established right in the country and to be able to help our people to go forward and to have education.
So they were the ones who have, over this ceasefire time, worked with the government, or the military regime, I guess you could say. But what happened during the ceasefire was that the Kachin army kept moving back and the Burmese army kept moving forward and taking up more positions, taking away lands from the church, taking away the jade mines, all the things that were once under the Kachin. During the ceasefire the Burmese just kept moving in and taking more and more to the point that the Kachin said we're going to have nothing so we have to stand up for our rights.
Does that answer your question a little bit there?