Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
I'd like to begin by thanking the witness for his very comprehensive testimony and then put two questions to him.
First, based on your experience in Rwanda, how would you feel the state-sanctioned incitement in Ahmadinejad's Iran compares to that, both in terms of the content of the message and the identity of the state officials promulgating the message? How do these two compare? In that regard, again based on your experience in Rwanda, does international law recognize the role of euphemisms in genocidal incitement? Does it make a difference under international law, for example, if Iranian officials refer to “the Zionist entity” as opposed to Israel? That's the first question, with a related one.
Second, could you elaborate on the obligation to prevent genocide that is mentioned in the genocide convention, and its connection to the prohibition on incitement to genocide? In a word, how firmly established in international law is the crime of incitement to genocide?
Those are the two sets of questions.