DAMASCUS, 31 May1999 (Reuters)-Fourteen year old Aisha picked dirt from her fingernails and calmly recounted how her father used to rape her six years ago whenever they were alone at home.” I told my mother who challenged my father. But he just shouted at her and said that he owned me and had the right to do whatever he wanted to me”. Women in Syria are usually viewed as weaker than men in mind, body, …showed first 75 words of 1301 total…

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