Riad Seif
Riad Seif
Riad Seif is a Syrian political dissident and prominent businessman who founded and lead the Forum for National Dialogue. Seif was elected to the Parliament of Syria in 1994 as an independent and again in 1998. For several years he owned an Adidas franchise in Damascus...
shut single
They shut us down before we could even say a single word.
build cannot children pains regime
This regime cannot survive, it must change. We say we have the right to live like other nations, to build our country. We want our children and grandchildren not to have the same pains and not to live like slaves.
clear common
We were not wrong, we were working for the common good... I think it is clear now that we were right.
country farm free hand owned owner percent syria time whatever
Syria was guided, in the time of Assad, not like a country, but like a farm -- it's owned by someone and he has a 100 percent free hand to do whatever he wants, like the owner of a farm.