Thank you, Mr. Chair. Gentlemen, thank you for sharing your expertise with us.
Not much has been said about how the north's leaders are behaving in the current conflict, especially with the approaching referendum preparations. Are they giving inflammatory speeches or employing vote-buying methods to try to influence people from the south? This was hinted at when we talked about NGOs that let the government buy, in a sense, the support of certain villages.
I have another question about how people can become registered voters for the coming referendum in the south. If I my understanding is correct, even people living in the north who were originally southerners can vote in the south, as long as they provide proof of having belonged to a tribe from the south for four generations. How can they provide this kind of proof in a country where, I would think, there are very few civil registers? How does that work?
I asked two questions. I'll repeat them, as I'm not sure the interpretation came through. How are the north's leaders behaving at this time? Are they making an effort to win the support of people from the south, or are they resorting to intimidation? In a country without a civil register, how do people go about proving that they have belonged to a tribe of a given region for four generations?