Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Syria Has a Massive Rape Crisis - Lauren Wolfe - The Atlantic - via humanvoice - Newsvine

Syria Has a Massive Rape Crisis - Lauren Wolfe - The Atlantic - via humanvoice - Newsvine

clip from article:  "One day in the fall of 2012, Syrian government troops brought a young Free Syrian Army soldier's fiancée, sisters, mother, and female neighbors to the Syrian prison in which he was being held. One by one, he said, they were raped in front of him.The 18-year-old had been an FSA soldier for less than a month when he was picked up. Crying uncontrollably as he recounted his torture while in detention to a psychiatrist named Yassar Kanawati, he said he suffers from a spinal injury inflicted by his captors. The other men detained with him were all raped, he told the doctor. When Kanawati asked if he, too, was raped, he went silent." [read more at link]

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