Women in Aleppo Choose Suicide Over Rape, Rebels Report

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Women in Aleppo Choose Suicide Over Rape, Rebels Report
Activists and rebels in the besieged city say mass executions have begun and children are burned alive as Assad’s Iranian- and Russian-backed forces move in.
Michael Weiss
Roy Gutman
Alex Rowell
12.13.16 2:50 PM ET

Editor's Note: This story has been updated throughout.

Troops loyal to Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad and foreign militias under Iranian command swept into eastern Aleppo on Monday, recapturing nearly all of the city’s opposition-held areas and seizing the citadel of the Syrian revolution.

The triumphal takeover followed a day of intense bombing of houses and apartment buildings, destroying so many that it was impossible to determine the death toll. The neighborhoods of Bustan al-Qasr, al-Kallasa, al-Farod and al-Salhin in the Old City, as well as Sheikh Saed, in the southern district, are all now under regime control.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/12/12/last-rebels-in-aleppo-say-assad-forces-are-burning-people-alive.html?via=newsletter&source=DDAfternoon

[Gefn]

I studied the battle of Masada in Hebrew School, and I've been raped.

At the risk of upsetting people here, and I don't mean to, under these circumstances, I would choose death over that too, in that type of  situation.

I pray for the people of Aleppo.