Chris Smith

Thank you so very much for that very powerful testimony.

Leahy should be reexamined, or else Nigeria will continue to look to countries like Pakistan for mentorship.

I, too, would raise that as well. I understand the abundance of caution and that is prudent, but again, if we were in the position of training with human rights training, but also to be more effective, I think the Nigerian forces, some of…

He did tell us when we were meeting with him that he had a robust program to help AIDS orphans and it was canceled.

If you could, one, take back, the Jubilee Campaign was actually helping the people and those 91 refugees.

I think is shocking. That needs to be turned around.

I find it appalling that on November 12, 2013, China was elected to serve as a member in good standing on the U.N. Human Rights Council.

The policy of the United States is to favor that, because we see more important issues at stake.

We have to offer him carrots if we want him to give up power.

If what we want is justice, it wants to bring Assad to justice...the ICC is the appropriate instrument.

The ICC is an extremely blunt instrument. It is not an instrument of diplomacy, but, rather, an instrument of justice.

I think we can do better than that.

But if what we want to do is end the war...sending in the ICC is the worst possible way to achieve that objective.

What kind of message does this send to the people of Syria who are being slaughtered and forced to flee, or to our enemies, and mostly importantly to our allies?

Time and time again the administration takes half-measures or no measures, and its indecision has eroded our credibility in the region.

Christian communities in Syria have taken a huge toll in this conflict as Christians are being targeted for kidnapping, torture, and murder, by radical Islamists who hate them just for being Christians.

It is my hope that today's hearing and the hearing that will undoubtedly follow will cast a light on policies that will wisely and swiftly end this crisis and heal the lives of those caught in the balance.

Those who have perpetrated human rights violations among the Syrian Government, the rebels, and the foreign fighters on both sides of this conflict, must be shown that their actions will have serious consequences.

If I could, in terms of the abductions, and there's even houses where these girls are put in in province after province. What are we doing to say to the government this becomes a matter of conditionality for foreign aid to the Egyptian…

The allegation of forced abductions, obviously abductions, and the coercion into these marriages is real.

What are we doing now to combat this?

In the past couple of years, I've held three hearings on Egypt focused almost exclusively on the human rights situation there and the deterioration of human rights.

The persecution of Coptic Christians in general and the abuse of young Coptic Christian teenage girls and young women for the purpose of coerced marriages to Muslim men was the focus of two of those hearings.

I am very honored always to sit with you, and to stand with you and the leadership you have provided on human rights issues.

If we can bring to a liberalization in China and support those people who are struggling... it will mean a great deal to the security of the United States and the rest of the world.