| inbluevt | Date: Sunday, 2013/07/28, 10:28 PM | Message # 1 | DMCA |
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They have escaped one war only to find themselves as casualties and combatants in another—a conflict waged against them less publicly and not with bullets or missiles. The weapons employed are sexual harassment and abuse, domestic violence, and the exploitation by the unscrupulous
of economic distress, forcing some to agree to prostitution, others to
sell off teenage daughters as child brides.
For many Syrian women who have sought sanctuary in neighboring Lebanon from a civil war that has left an estimated 100,000 dead since the conflict started in March 2011, their refuge is laden with new
menace and suffering—compounding their grief over the deaths of family or friends or their depression at the loss of homes. Even within their families there’s sometimes no safety, with jobless husbands frustrated with the stress and indignity of living as refugees lashing out, beating
wives and hitting kids.
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A general view shows a Syrian refugee camp in the village of Saadnayel in the Bekaa valley on March 6. (Joseph Eid/AFP/Getty)
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