Murder of Suzan Der Kirkour

Murder of Suzan Der Kirkour
Murder of Suzan Der Kirkour
Location	Al-Yaqoubiyeh, Idlib, Syria
Date	8-9 of July 2019
Weapons	Stoned to death
Deaths	1 (Suzan Der Kirkour, 60 year old Armenian Christian)
Perpetrator	unknown, 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]

Timeline

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.^{[citation needed]}

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

^ "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.
^ JIHADISTS RAPE, STONE CHRISTIAN WOMAN TO DEATH IN SYRIA, Jerusalem Post, 21 July 2019, Benjamin Weinthal
^ Muslim extremists in Syria torture, rape Christian woman for 9 hours before stoning her to death, Christian Post, 18 July 2019
^ Retired Syrian Christian woman brutally tortured and murdered in Idlib, The New Arab, 20 July 2019
^ "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.
^ "A Syrian Christian raped and killed in Idlib".
^ "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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[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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