Skip to main content

Joint Subcommittee Hearing: Genocidal Attacks Against Christian and Other Religious Minorities in Syria and Iraq

Date:
Location:
2172 Rayburn House Office Building

Webcast

Opening Statements

Chairman Smith's Opening Statement: Chairman Ros-Lehtinen's Opening Statement:
Witnesses
Chairman Smith Questions Witnesses: Chairman Ros-Lehtinen Questions Witnesses:

Panel I

The Honorable Tom Malinowski Assistant Secretary Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor U.S. Department of State [full text of statement] The Honorable Anne Richard Assistant Secretary Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration U.S. Department of State [full text of statement] Mr. Thomas Staal Senior Deputy Assistant Administrator Bureau for Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance U.S. Agency for International Development [full text of statement]

Panel II

His Excellency Ibrahim N. Ibrahim Bishop Emeritus Chaldean Eparchy of St. Thomas the Apostle [truth in testimony form] The Honorable Peter Galbraith (Former Advisor to the Kurdistan Regional Government) [full text of statement] [truth in testimony form] Her Excellency Pascale Esho Warda President Hammurabi Human Rights Organization (Former Minister of Immigration and Refugees in the Iraqi Government) [full text of statement] [truth in testimony form] Thomas Farr, Ph.D. Director, Religious Freedom Project Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs Georgetown University [full text of statement] [truth in testimony form] ____________________________

Hearing transcript (PDF)