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my name is andrew live-in from harpercollins. my question was, can you go a little bit more to the sectarian elements if it is, perhaps, genocide, a lot of mass killings, what might be the goal ? is a bill to eliminate or at least remove from the country and of of this in these and other folks, a larger components in a bargaining chip for peace. >> go ahead. >> if you have a sense of history minority groups and minority groups in the middle east, they have not always been able to charge. it is happening at a particular point in time for political reasons. you can focus on the political reasons if you want to understand this important problem of sectarianism and minority rights. a solution to of futures syria has to recall or around some accommodation for minority rights are protected, enshrined, and protected by an existing security system. the only lesson in history that we can learn is that syria is not the first country that was struggling with this question of how minorities and protection in a majority society. broadly speak