Thank you, Mr. Scott, for being here today. Your testimony is very prescient and very moving.
As you mentioned in your remarks twice, and as the report of the commission made clear in early March, the future is rather bleak, and it's bleak because it's a man-made problem. All the problems you've described have been caused by human beings, namely by political elites.
Could you touch on the place of democracy in South Sudan's future? I know that a discussion on democracy might seem rather misplaced in all of this, considering how grave the situation is right now in South Sudan. It has long been observed by economists such as Amartya Sen, who makes a clear link between famine, for instance, and democracy, that in established and vibrant democracies, famines don't happen, because political elites are ultimately accountable to populations who vote and who want good management of the country. In addition to that, a situation of famine is almost always the result of bad policies, bad management, and a lack of accountability that political elites face.
Could you speak to that point about democracy and also the importance of it in helping deal with some of the problems of corruption and impunity that you point to? I think that if South Sudan is to have a viable future, democracy has to be a part of it, but how do you transition to democracy in this sort of context? The famine on the one hand and the impunity that you talk about are so all-encompassing in the country right now that the country is plagued with these problems. The only way to deal with and overcome them is through democracy, I should say, but how do we get there? How can countries such as Canada help?