Women taking refuge in Turkey report rape, atrocties at hands of Syrian soldiers

Syrians who have taken shelter in tent camps in Turkey's southern Hatay province due to the ongoing unrest in their country say that Syrian soldiers raped women and cut their breasts off, reported The Australian newspaper today. One woman refugee told the paper that 12 women had been brutalised with a bottle in Mamal al-Suker and four of them had later had their throats slit. "Syrian forces in the Mamal al-Suker area of the flashpoint city of Jisr al-Shughour had assaulted the women and thrown acid over the men," the paper reported refugees as saying.