ASSAD'S PRISONS: 'Take Your Portion': A Victim Speaks Out About Rape in Syria - Lauren Wolfe - The Atlantic

Alma Abdulrahman is lying gaunt and unable to move anything below her diaphragm in a hospital bed in Amman. Some bedsores have become so deep she's having surgery tomorrow. Screws hold together her upper vertebrae, and cigarette burns pock her right shoulder. Her voice fades in and out, hoarse from either weakness or morphine.

Six months earlier, she was paralyzed when a regime soldier struck her in the neck with a rifle on a street on the outskirts of Damascus. Now, from a guarded hospital room, she wants to be heard, and what she has to say is deeply disturbing.

Alma Abdulrahman is one of the very few women in the Syrian conflict to speak out about having been raped. While she offered to use her entire name in this story, I've used only her first name and a family name because of safety concerns...............

FULL ARTICLE HERE: 'Take Your Portion': A Victim Speaks Out About Rape in Syria - Lauren Wolfe - The Atlantic