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I simply raised it because the literature on amnesty indicates that.  And I think if acts were perpetrated on that basis alone, on race, then it's a factor that must be weighed up.  It is an uncomfortable area but it's an area that obviously must be met head on, it must be ventilated and it must be analysed.
	I accept that there are precedents and obviously this Committee will have to, in the light of those precedents, whether it can deviate from those precedents or feel itself bound by those precedents.  I certainly accept what you say Mr Chairman, that amnesty has been granted in - probably if you have to compare those incidents with the one before you, are more shocking, are more barbaric and more savage.  
	However, I respect what you have said and I accept that there are precedents in that nature.  I simply refer to race because it was mentioned by the Chair itself, it was mentioned that it seemed to be one of the motives for the attack and that is context on which I address the Committee.