IRC : Rape In Syria by Terrorists Is Driving Women To Leave

Rape is forcing increasing numbers of Syrian women and girls to flee their homes, according to a new report by the International Rescue Committee.

Women and girls tell the IRC they were attacked in public and inside their homes, mainly by armed men. For many, the assaults occurred in front of their family members. The IRC says this is forcing increasing numbers of Syrians to flee, becoming refugees in neighboring Lebanon, Turkey, Jordan and Iraq.

A 28-year-old woman from the southern town of Dara’a, now a refugee in Jordan, told the IRC that her children used to see dead bodies thrown in the garbage pile across the street from her home:

“I told them not to look out the window anymore. It didn’t help,” she says. “When they raided the house next door, we could hear the rape of my neighbor, my friend. And then they arrested my brother and tortured him for days.”

The alleged attackers are from the rebels who are supported, financed, armed by US, West, Israel, Qatar, S. Arabia, Turkey and other puppet regimes .

The IRC warns that so far aid is insufficient to meet the needs of the Syrian humanitarian crisis. The group says these women and girls hardly have access to the bare necessities, let alone counseling services.