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Two Syrian women on Friday were locked in a cage full of skeletons in punishment for violating Daesh’s strict dress code in the militant group’s stronghold of Raqqa. The London-based Observatory for Human Rights said one of the women fainted in the cage and had to be transported to one of the hospitals in the northern province, which became Daesh’s headquarters in Syria after the group took the city in 2013. A spokesman for the local-based activist group “Raqqa is being Slaughtered Silently” also reported Daesh’ latest scare tactic against women found to have flouted the draconian rules. Daesh recently locked a 19-year old woman in a cage full of skeletons, driving her to the point of madness, according to Mohammed Al-Salih. The spokesman did not specify whether the incident was the same as the one reported by the UK-based monitor. Salih also said that there were “similar cases of women locked in cages with skeletons or forced to sleep overnight in a cemetery” for not wearing what Daesh deems as appropriate. More serious violations are punished by the amputation of limbs, or execution. Video reports as well as accounts of escapees show that Daesh forces women living in its areas — whether in Syria or Iraq — to don head-to-toe garbs. Meanwhile, the Observatory said Daesh has recently stormed homes in Raqqa and arrested 10 men suspected of spying against the group.Read more at:http://www.marieaustralia.com
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May 3, 2016
May 3, 2016 at 4:31 AM UTC
judy-smith
Daesh ‘locks women in cages’ for flouting strict dress code in Raqqa
Two Syrian women on Friday were locked in a cage full of skeletons in punishment for violating Daesh’s strict dress code in the militant group’s stronghold of Raqqa. The London-based Observatory for Human Rights said one of the women fainted in the cage and had to be transported to one of the hospitals in the northern province, which became Daesh’s headquarters in Syria after the group took the city in 2013. A spokesman for the local-based activist group “Raqqa is being Slaughtered Silently” also reported Daesh’ latest scare tactic against women found to have flouted the draconian rules. Daesh recently locked a 19-year old woman in a cage full of skeletons, driving her to the point of madness, according to Mohammed Al-Salih. The spokesman did not specify whether the incident was the same as the one reported by the UK-based monitor. Salih also said that there were “similar cases of women locked in cages with skeletons or forced to sleep overnight in a cemetery” for not wearing what Daesh deems as appropriate. More serious violations are punished by the amputation of limbs, or execution. Video reports as well as accounts of escapees show that Daesh forces women living in its areas — whether in Syria or Iraq — to don head-to-toe garbs. Meanwhile, the Observatory said Daesh has recently stormed homes in Raqqa and arrested 10 men suspected of spying against the group.Read more at:http://www.marieaustralia.com
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“…the country around us is a circle sunk in the mirage.” –Tayeb Salih, The Season of Migration to the North Trudging a barrenness soaked by illusion, heat-warped. Why is there a projection upon the air? Tireless dictator can’t succumb to the desert—can’t. Underneath the shaping of haze, underneath meaning is you tethered to wandering. But a lizard is a lizard– the cloak of meaning makes you more. The country is projected upon the haze. It is yours. It has meaning. It is meaning. Another culture, the sun, mingles with its air, dissolves its definiteness. Now your country is transitory: the desert becomes realer than a mirage. But the sun’s pressing can’t be all. There is something. You walk closer. It moves.
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Dec 29, 2014
Dec 29, 2014 at 11:59 PM UTC
andrew-geary
There is No Desert
“…the country around us is a circle sunk in the mirage.” –Tayeb Salih, The Season of Migration to the North Trudging a barrenness soaked by illusion, heat-warped. Why is there a projection upon the air? Tireless dictator can’t succumb to the desert—can’t. Underneath the shaping of haze, underneath meaning is you tethered to wandering. But a lizard is a lizard– the cloak of meaning makes you more. The country is projected upon the haze. It is yours. It has meaning. It is meaning. Another culture, the sun, mingles with its air, dissolves its definiteness. Now your country is transitory: the desert becomes realer than a mirage. But the sun’s pressing can’t be all. There is something. You walk closer. It moves.
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