Murder of Suzan Der Kirkour
LocationAl-Yaqoubiyeh, Idlib, Syria
Date8-9 of July 2019
WeaponsStoned to death
Deaths1 (Suzan Der Kirkour, 60 year old Armenian Christian)
Perpetratorunknown, members of Al-Nusra Front suspected

The Suzan Der Kirkour case concerns the rape and murder of an Armenian woman aged 60 in Idlib, Syria on 8-9 July 2019. Her death was mentioned by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights which also verified the incident.[1][2][3][4]

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Suzan Der Kirkour was a sixty-year-old Armenian woman (Christian by faith) - a retired gardener and Arabic teacher from al-Yaqoubiyeh village in Idlib, Syria. She used to provide various kind of help to the Kneye Village Church where she often helped youth achieve their baccalaureate.[5]

The woman went missing on 8 July 2019. Worried by her absence, the priest sent parishioners to look for her. They found her lifeless body lying on the ground of her field on 9 July.

The autopsy revealed that Suzanne had suffered the torture of repeated rape since the afternoon of Monday until the early morning of Tuesday (for about 9 hours).[6] Later, she was stoned to death by unidentified persons.[7]

References

  1. ↑ "11 were killed yesterday including 6 members of the regime and militiamen loyal to them and 5 other people • the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights". 16 July 2019.
  2. ↑ JIHADISTS RAPE, STONE CHRISTIAN WOMAN TO DEATH IN SYRIA, Jerusalem Post, 21 July 2019, Benjamin Weinthal
  3. ↑ Muslim extremists in Syria torture, rape Christian woman for 9 hours before stoning her to death, Christian Post, 18 July 2019
  4. ↑ Retired Syrian Christian woman brutally tortured and murdered in Idlib, The New Arab, 20 July 2019
  5. ↑ "11 were killed yesterday including 6 members of the regime and militiamen loyal to them and 5 other people • the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights". 16 July 2019.
  6. ↑ "A Syrian Christian raped and killed in Idlib".
  7. ↑ "11 were killed yesterday including 6 members of the regime and militiamen loyal to them and 5 other people • the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights". 16 July 2019.
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