Again, at the risk of repeating myself, one will be having to change the constitution to reflect a more homogeneous group of people.
We have 135 ethnic groups in the country, so a lot of work is going to have to be done. But when talking to many of the leaders from various ethnic groups, I haven't heard any of them say, “We want to become our own country.” They want to be a federation. They want to work together. I think the ethnic groups really desire that; they are not trying to become their own country. They're wanting to work within, because in a distant way they're all brothers and sisters, if you know what I mean. They're all part of the tribal clans that have come down, and so they understand that they have a lot of similarities. But they want to build together a level playing field of equality and bring hope and encouragement both to their children and to the people who will follow after them.
So you don't see any of the military groups attacking the capital city or going down to Rangoon. They're not trying to use their level of power against the Burmese. They're just saying, can we not make it equal? Can we not make it balanced?
I think that's what they're trying to do. I take my hat off to them for that.
But it's going to have to be, as Aung San Suu Kyi said, a federation of working together. She sees it, but I don't think they quite understand, because of all the years of going from being a kingdom to being under British rule to being now separated themselves. They just don't have the idea of democracy. It's not even in their blood. There has always been a supreme leader who rules his people.