Murder of Suzan Der Kirkour

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]

Murder of Suzan Der Kirkour
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

Timeline

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]

References

1. "11 were killed yesterday including 6 members of the regime and militiamen loyal to them and 5 other people • the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights". 16 July 2019.
2. JIHADISTS RAPE, STONE CHRISTIAN WOMAN TO DEATH IN SYRIA, Jerusalem Post, 21 July 2019, Benjamin Weinthal
3. Muslim extremists in Syria torture, rape Christian woman for 9 hours before stoning her to death, Christian Post, 18 July 2019
4. Retired Syrian Christian woman brutally tortured and murdered in Idlib, The New Arab, 20 July 2019
5. "11 were killed yesterday including 6 members of the regime and militiamen loyal to them and 5 other people • the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights". 16 July 2019.
6. "A Syrian Christian raped and killed in Idlib".
7. "11 were killed yesterday including 6 members of the regime and militiamen loyal to them and 5 other people • the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights". 16 July 2019.