MESOP TODAY’S EDITORIAL : GERMANS OFFERS TRAUMA CENTER FOR RAPE VICTIMS FROM SYRIA & IRAQ
MESOP 24 Dec 2014 – German Development Minister Gerd Müller has told a newspaper of the government’s plans to create a care facility for the victims of “Islamic State” violence. Germany has the highest number of aslyum seekers in Europe.German Development Minister Gerd Müller told the mass-circulation newspaper Bild on Monday that Berlin has plans to create a trauma center in Germany for the victims of mass rape carried out by “Islamic State” militants (IS) in Syria and Iraq.
Müller said while on a visit to Iraq he spoke to five young girls who had been captured by IS and raped. Three of them were pregnant as a result. “We have to take care of such girls,” Müller told the paper, saying that a care facility in Germany could serve at least 100 women and girls. He did not provide a timetable for the project nor did he say where in Germany such a facility would be established.Müller’s statements came after a United Nations report revealed last month the extent of the crimes perpetrated by IS on the people living in the cities and towns they capture. The UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria released a document full of harrowing descriptions of massacres, torture, sexual enslavement and forced pregnancy.