Thank you.
I haven't been in South Sudan for about two years, so I'm a bit out of date. The POC places are absolutely necessary if they can be protected and not overrun. We've seen them overrun sometimes, but when they're there, they're a place for saving lives.
I have found in the places I have been, though, to see how this political struggle became ethnic and to see these ethnic divisions that exist in these different.... The POCs are there, right outside the town of Bor or outside of Malakal. If they weren't there, I believe there would be much more slaughter.
That's where we have to provide the services that we're able to. People are alive there, so we've been.... I'm just talking about us at UNICEF, let alone others, right? There are clinics and child-friendly spaces, and you're trying to do schools. You're trying to do what you can.
It's shocking because these are people who, in the past, were living together in these communities. It speaks to how this political struggle is now ethnic. As Mr. Pedneault is saying, we can't deny that it's ethnic now. It wasn't then, but I believe these POC places—I don't know what you think, Mr. Pedneault—are vital right now for being able to keep people alive who are there.