Poor Infrastructure Between Hasakah and Deir ez-Zor and Celebrations in Damascus

Talking about how everything there has to be connected, but has anything changed?

From a year ago until now, or from three years ago until now, and I have visited the area…

Several times, nothing positive has changed, on the contrary, I asked someone in charge…

In the Autonomous Administration: after more than ten years that you have been ruling…

The area, there are oil resources in the area, so what has changed? I…

I went to the area, the infrastructure is worse, I mean, not out of envy, but you…

You were in better areas, thank God. I was, I was in a very bad area…

The water you are talking about, nor the electricity, nor the roads…

Much worse. I went from Hasakah to Deir ez-Zor, that…

Is suffering. I could not go back at night, I could not return, I slept there…

I mean, in terms of infrastructure and… uh, I was trying to manage to find…

Any place where we could sleep at night, because after six people disappear…

From the street, but after six, with Taher the situation was different in Damascus, I mean…

After six I was fine, really, the situation in terms of security was fine.

Most of the time it was celebrations from the moment we arrived, by the way maybe

People kept watching Al Arabiya’s screen and the event, the celebrations day

On the eighth anniversary from the first time we arrived, people were in the streets chanting

With flags, anthems, and songs, and we even went, by the way, the Syrians themselves

Got fed up, I mean they started saying, enough already, please, go back home

Because we want to, you know, be able to live our lives normally, it had to

You had to keep going along with us on this journey, that would have made up for it a bit, but we saw the security forces and

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