. >> mr. mcintyre. >> i would like to ask a panel what you feel like with regard to am-23 in -- m23 with regard to their ultimate aims, do you feel the threat is subsiding you feel there is a threat of war? >> i will take that question. the m23 is a rebel group that once integrated into the congolese military and has now broken away because they believe the terms that were signed on their integration into the military on march 23, 2009, were broken. what we are seeing in the aredrc is a rebel -- in the eastern drc is a rebel group that has defied its military command. they have been referred -- they have refused to be located out of the eastern region as units and they refuse to be relocated out by separate senior officers. this is at the heart of the current rebellion. but the orangemen -- origin of the m23 is that it was a rebel group prior to 2009. it went under a different akron and then, d cndp, but is basically a rebel group. the military leaders have sought to parlay their influence int