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May 29th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Meanwhile refugees fleeing Syria
have told the Telegraph that regime militia are using rape and the
threat of it to scare the opposition.
An activist calling himself Rami who has spent the past months helping
families escape into neighbouring Jordan said: “There was a 17 year old
boy. He was in a terrible condition. He would sit and cry and refused to eat
or speak to anyone,” said Rami. “Eventually with the help of a
councillor he opened up. He had been arrested at a protest. When he was
taken to a detention centre two officers had raped him”.
“I know of many cases like him. They would throw raped male protesters
back out on the streets as a warning to others,” said Rami.
Rami is a wanted man by the regime. Months earlier he was forced to flee his
home town of Dera’a leaving his wife ‘Hadija’ alone at home with their five
children.
Late one night, ten ‘shabiha’ [government paramilitaries] broke into the
bedroom where she and her daughters were asleep.
“They tore at my nightgown trying to strip me. I started screaming. My
daughter was crying,” said Hadija. “They were taking videos and
photos on their phones”.
The men only fled when neighbours who heard the commotion intervened.
A week later four of them returned. “I promised that my husband would
hand himself him,” said Hadija. “They said; ‘Tell your husband
that we have seen your breasts and we have stripped you. Next time we are
going to rape you and we film it and air it everywhere'”.
Terrified, she gathered her children and fled to stay with relatives on the
outskirts of the city, never staying in one home for more than a few days.
“They [security forces] did the same with many others. It became known
that the sister, wife, or daughter of anyone who was fighting might be
raped, and many were,” said Hadija. “Now those who are wanted take
their wives and daughters with them.”
The situation is worse in Baba Amr, the former rebel bastion that was crushed
by regime forces, said refugees in Jordan.
“In Homs they treat the women as spoils of war,” said Fathima, who
fled from Baba Amr.
Fathima’s husband had been leading a rebel unit in Baba Amr when the district
fell and soldiers began conducting house-to-house raids. Hurriedly she hid
her husband, children and thirteen year old brother in law in a secret
cranny in their home before opening the door.
“One of the men wanted to see inside the pantry. Then he grabbed me hard
by the hand and tried to drag me inside. I resisted, I was praying, “in
God I put my faith” out loud. I freed my hand but he grabbed me by the
waist. He tried to rip my clothes away,” said Fathima.
“I didn’t want to scream because I knew my husband would come and then
they would kill him”.
On this occasion Fathima said she was saved when another soldier who shouted
at the men to leave the house. Others were not so lucky she said; “It
is common in Homs. Relatives on my husband’s side were found killed, among
them Hameda, a 17-year-old girl, who had been raped”.
Documenting cases of rape against women is extremely difficult in Syria’s
conservative society where a family’s honour is tied to the virtue of its
women. The mere suggestion of compromised chastity, no matter the
circumstance, is a stain that can make the victim and her entire family
outcasts.
Particularly in rural communities in Syria, the mere threat that women may be
being raped is having terrible consequences.
“We know of cases where husbands have divorced their wives, casting them
from their homes, just because they were taken to a detention centre and so
might have been raped,” said a Syria researcher for the global campaign
group Avaaz.
“This is happening but it is not something people talk about. Women who
were raped can no longer get married. Their life went like that,” said
Hadija snapping her fingers together.
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