Rape ‘significant’ factor in Syria conflict: watchdog
Worldwide, Daily news | ankakh | January 14, 2013 17:42Rape has been a “significant” weapon of war in the conflict raging in Syria since March 2011 and is the “primary” factor in the exodus of women and children refugees to neighbouring Jordan and Lebanon, an aid group said on Monday.
In its report, “Syria: A Regional Crisis,” the US-based International Rescue Committee (IRC) described rape “as a significant and disturbing feature of the Syrian civil war”.
“In the course of three IRC assessments in Lebanon and Jordan, Syrians identified rape as a primary reason their families fled the country,” the report said, calling for urgent attention to the issue.
“Many women and girls relayed accounts of being attacked in public or in their homes, primarily by armed men. These rapes, sometimes by multiple perpetrators, often occur in front of family members.”
The IRC said it was also told of attacks in which women and girls were kidnapped, raped, tortured and killed.
Syrian survivors rarely report sexual violence due to “the stigma and social norms around the dishonour that rape brings to women and girls and their families,” the IRC said.
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