Because of terrorism ... seven thousand Algerians are raped

 Report-Algeria

Saida Ben Habiles, Chairwoman of the Algerian Association for Rural Women’s Rights and Chairwoman of the International Association for the Victims of Terrorism underlined that terrorists had raped more than seven thousand women in ten years. It added in a press conference that this figure is but the announced one. The real figure is much higher

given that a large number of families whose daughters were raped declined to announce it because of the traditions and for fear to be disgraced.

Saida, who had previously served as Minister of Solidarity and Women’s Rights at the beginning of the last decade, pointed out that a high percentage of these women suffer chronic disorder as a result of what they had experienced and that others suffer from sexual blackmail from local officials in return for access to documents proving that they had been victims of terrorism.

She explained that women in rural areas were the most subjected to rape by terrorist groups on the grounds that remote villages were easy prey for terrorists who kill men and kidnap women for enjoyment, as indicated in the statement.