Women committing suicide in Alepo to avoid rape – Reports

Women trapped in Syrian Aleppo are said to be choosing suicide over rape, according to reports.

Decrying the crushing of Aleppo, the immeasurably terrifying toll on its people, the bloodshed, the wanton slaughter of men, women and children, the destruction, a Jordanian-born U.N. official, Hussein, warned, “We are nowhere near the end of this cruel conflict.”


“What can happen next, if the international community continues to collectively wring its hands can be much more dangerous.” Hussein said the slaughter in Aleppo could repeat itself in Douma, Raqqa and Idlib, referring to other opposition-held areas in the war-ravaged country.

According to the DailyBeast, Abdullah Othman, the head of the Consultative Council in the Levant Front, one of the largest rebel groups in Aleppo, said this morning that the opposition was still in possession of six neighborhoods, including Salaheddine, once the sight of some of the fiercest urban combat the Syrian civil war had witnessed.

Othman said, “Yesterday, some residents who couldn’t take the bombardment anymore fled toward regime controlled areas.

“Seventy-nine of them were executed at the barricades. The rest — everyone under 40 — were taken to warehouses that look more like internment camps. They face an unknown fate.
“This morning 20 women committed suicide in order not to be raped.”