Disillusioned Female Syrian Regime Soldiers Complain They're Mistreated

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October 10, 2016, 9 PM ET

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Things must be going pretty badly for the Syrian regime: apparently the government's military apparatus has even forgotten how to treat its women. A group of disillusioned female Syrian regime soldiers from Brigade 130 organized themselves to gripe about the treatment they have received at the hands of their commanders – including Syrian President Bashar al-Assad himself. In the video provided by the “Syrian Revolution (SRLW)” (which has English-language subtitles) the female fighters of Brigade 130 say they are treated like “prostitutes" by their superior officers. They don’t have adequate food or housing, and they have been sexually harassed by senior officers. It’s not what they signed up for, say the women. Most appear in the footage with hair coverings and apparently are observant Muslims.

#SRLW | Assad's women soldiers complain of sexual harassment..
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“If we utter a word, he swears at us,” one woman says. “He’d burst in a roar of obscenity. We’ve never expected that in the military to which we offered our lives. “We left behind our civilian life, families and children and joined in to protect our land and leader (Assad), not to be verbally humiliated,” the military spokeswoman among the group says.