I want to thank our witnesses for being with us today on short notice. We appreciate it. The committee felt seized of this issue, and we felt we needed to have this hearing as quickly as we could.
I had a chance to go to Myanmar last summer with a multinational, multi-faith group that went there specifically to try to address this issue. At the time when talking to people, we didn't think it could get much worse than it was, but it obviously has gotten far worse.
I want to ask about something you touched on at the start, Mr. Arkani. Is this an attempt to solve a long-lasting problem? Is the government committed to seeing this through to the end? Is that what's going on? Is it a conflict that has kind of surged up, which some people have decided to take advantage of, or is there a decision behind the scenes that they're going to solve this situation once and for all?
Could you comment on that?