To have an opportunity to experience the Mons in their motherland is almost impossible because the Burmese government has designated the land as a closed territory. Information about the territory is only gained through monks. To liberate the land from Burmese rule is also almost impossible because the ethnic group lacks strong leaders, development and national revival ideology. However, they have been able to maintain their language, culture and traditions until today because of Buddhist temples and monks. Past and present Burmese government policies have resulted in suppression and violations of basic human rights. 
A Mon intellectual recommended that a railroad between Bangkok and Rangoon following the route of the Death Railway be restored, with cooperation from Japan, to create an economic relationship between the two countries. To take the Mon territory from Burma should be done through economic, industrial and educational means rather than through weapons in the era of commercial, economic and technological competition. Mon ethnicity and nationhood will remain as long as they have faith in Buddhism.