Held in a crudely lit basement of a police building, Guz described being routinely tortured (she rolled up her sleeves to show me the two-inch-long scars of raised skin, where her flesh had been slashed with knives); she explained how she was forced to clean the rebels’ toilets and beaten on her back so severely that she could not stand up straight for two days; she said she was forced to strip off in front of her captors, who told her, “I won’t beat you up too much in the face as I haven’t had a woman in some time, and you’ll fix that for me.” After that threat, Guz was unable to sleep, terrified she would be raped by the rebels who called themselves the Russian Orthodox Army, one of the pro-Russian rebel groups fighting in eastern Ukraine for an independent state. Read more of this story on Women Under Siege: bit.ly/1HbUrTJ
Posted on: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 20:52:31 +0000
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