Cameras off for the testimony and thank you all for attending today. The committee turned the cameras back on to hear from two more survivors of the civil war. They spoke about their experiences as bush are alassads prisoners and how americans should strive to make the voices heard. This portion is about 40 minutes. We will now hear from our second panel. The first witness is omar, former detainee in the regime and the vast network of prisons. He spent nearly two years in detention in syria and Intelligence Branch to 15 working on are the bodies of dead torture victims that later appeared in the photos of the file. While detained, he learned most of his family and village were killed. After breach to 15, 04 was moved to the president of the worst place on earth where he survived for a year before finally being released. He eventually traveled to europe and arrived in sweden where he has resided ever since. Today hes a member of the team and the assyrian Emergency Task force. With that,
Us today and now we are going to take a moment to turn the cameras off for the the first witness is omar, former detainee in the regime and the vast network of prisons. He spent nearly two years in detention in syria and Intelligence Branch to 15 working on are the bodies of dead torture victims that later appeared in the photos of the file. While detained, he learned most of his family and village were killed. After breach to 15, 04 was moved to the president of the worst place on earth where he survived for a year before finally being released. He eventually traveled to europe and arrived in sweden where he has resided ever since. Today hes a member of the team and the assyrian Emergency Task force. With that, we will hear from him and then we will move to the second witness. Schools and hospitals and bakeries have all been targeted. All day everyday. Civilians live in fear of the regime. Russia and iran. We cannot forget why so many people have come to this place. The very same dete
Our next panel we are very excited to get an International Perspective on infrastructure. Earlier i had a chance to meet with mexicos current chair of the governors the current chair is france just go and incoming as mendoza, swift got both representatives from mexico and canada appear on the stage we are really thrilled to have it with us a total of five premieres from our neighbors to the north, who we very much appreciate everybody making the tremendous effort to come down here and join us. They are joining us for this discussion on infrastructure from an International Perspective. I believe canada is doing some really interesting and Creative Things on infrastructure, silly want to thank each one of you for joining us. We have saskatchewan premier who is the chair of the council of the federation which is our equivalent, sort of like the nga of canada. Quebec khmer fans while ago, ontario premier doug ford, New Brunswick premier blaine higgs, and alberta premier jason, please give
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