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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