Murder of Suzan Der Kirkour | |
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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]
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]