when president kabila tried after the elections to the element as ambassador ms.carson was discovered facts of what happened. it was underneath was the cndp have established for years disability to export illegally and extract natural resources and ensure political and security interests of the state ever wondered. when president kabila tried to redeployed out of that region, which would undermine the proxy control, the rebellion immediately occurred to us they couldn't allow that to happen. for one and support comes pouring in. they change the acronyms of the same group. there's a lack of any domestic constituency that the m23 half. nevertheless, the result is the same. or allowing dose of powerful proxies to profit for destabilization. >> just a couple points. i think the disco is not part of the problem. just like rwanda in the sense that part of the challenge when we look at congo is a lot of people discover congo existed way before that. those of us who were born there and grew up their newly country to work spirits when we go to congo today come we don't app

meanwhile, kabila seizes power. is a childul, soldier, commander of a group of child soldiers participating in that movement to get rid of him. he is assassinated within hours of the close of the clinton administration back in 2001. his son, 30 years old, former child commander of a child army, emerges as the president and he remains in power up to this time. his daddy was supported by the rwandan, angolans, zimbabweania. when he got to power, he told them all, i will be the one who controls the natural resources of this country. after he is assassinated -- what attributes do you attribute to the sun as far as his leadership abilities? joseph kabila, who was recently elected in 2011, which many characterized as a rigged election -- what do we know about the current president, and why do we support leaders in africa to exploit their citizens and the poverty that in sue's makes them more susceptible -- ensues makes them more susceptible to extremist elements, like al-qaeda? you will receive 100 virgins when you do the

we are urging president kabila to take clear and full measures to ensure that the soldiers of the army are professionally trained, adequately paid and supported and respectful of their citizens into international human rights norms. .. >> they must establish nonviolent means of security, economics, and border differences. as secretary clinton noted when she visited in 2009, the congolese people are courageous and resilient and there are reasons for hope across the entirety of the drc, including progress through electronic and mobile banking and building the capacity to mass atrocities and human rights violations. we need to build on the steps, which have been greatly setback by the current m23 rebellion. the decisions based today are decisions that will have a direct impact on what happens over the next several months as well as the next several years. it will effect the promotion of the concept we have promoted for sustained operations and the resistance army of that has operated in the northern part and in the central african republic. today's crisis is a tragedy. but it also offers

we even talked directly -- i spoke with president kabila and members of his government about this -- introducing a mobile banking system to ensure that would be able to get be aoldier their pay as long as they have a cell phone. we also said that they must be properly housed, and they must be supported without resupply. -- with resupply. we also signed and paid for a couple of mentors to work with them after their training to ensure that they would retain their cohesiveness and their sharpness of. they have been very, very good and they were part of a counter operation in the northeastern part of the country for a long time. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i would like to talk with you a little bit about the security and humanitarian situation in the drc and the use of our isr platforms over there. could you speak to what is being done now with these isr platforms? >> the isr issue is incredibly important to us, there is huge value in everything we are doing. on the issue we have been talking about here today regarding the eastern congo, there is not much isr work there we are providing.

period where they would be able to mobilize in eastern, front against a delegitimize, and president kabila himself. this would certainly a part of the titrations about why, to push for this now. .. she would have been arrested himself. the third element that i think as they took into account in preparing the strategy because it was quite well prepared, we have extensive evidence that shows he back all the way in 2011 was and as a large amounts of weapons at his home and in numerous preparation for the return to the war precisely after the election. but they also understood that there was a generalized congo fatigue as has been often described the there is a sentiment that congo is always a mess. the president and been told by rwandan diplomats say that the congo has been a mess before he was born and will be infinitely or indefinitely. certainly within the u.n. there are a member states were questioning the strategy on the congo. how long can they continue to foot the bill for the peacekeeping mission which is so costly, and should we start to think of more radical solutions, definitive lo