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"Mr President, the Burmese regime is certainly a very brutal one and those who referred to the situation of Christians in Burma are right in what they said about the Buddhists’ actions. Nonetheless, I feel that what the Burmese authorities are doing is applying the principle of ‘divide and rule’. This is typical of certain regimes and autocracies. Religious differences are exploited largely for political gain. Mr Kelly drew a comparison with Northern Ireland, and I think that he would agree that religious circumstances are very often exploited for political ends. This means that we should not focus on the ideological differences between Buddhism and Christianity because the two faiths actually have much in common. Instead, we should try to understand the nature of that regime, which involves fostering divisions, and setting groups against each other on the pretext of religious differences. The European Union has a positive role to play in that respect."@en1
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