‘My family regarded me as unclean’: Syrian migrant Rokstan M was allegedly stabbed to death by her father and brothers in the twisted logic she brought disgrace on her family after being gang raped
A woman whose family branded her ‘unclean’ after she was gang-raped in her Syrian homeland has been found murdered in Germany – allegedly on the orders of her own mother.
Police
believe the victim, named only as Rokstan M, 20, was stabbed to death
by her father and brothers in the twisted logic that she had brought
disgrace on her family through the sex attack.
Shortly
before she was found dead in an allotment garden in the eastern German
city of Dessau, she apparently had a premonition of her fate.
Writing on her WhatsApp profile, she said: ‘I am awaiting death. But I am too young to die.’
Rokstan
had been living in a house for single women before returning to her
family a few days before she was murdered and buried in a shallow grave.
The
killing has served to pull into sharp focus the cultural gulf between
Germans and the more than one million refugees expected to arrive in the
country this year.
Rokstan had arrived in Germany two years ago following her ordeal.
Authorities
say she was well integrated into society and worked as a translator for
asylum seekers navigating their way through German bureaucracy.
Author
Mark Krüger, who employed her to interpret interviews he conducted with
refugees for a book he is writing, said: ‘Rokstan told me her terrible
fate after she had helped me with translations.’
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