Hidden crime: Sex slavery of Syrian girls

With the Syrian Army taking rebel grounds in different parts of the war-torn country, the world is increasingly coming to grips with the inhuman side of the war.
Over these years, the Syrian conflict has been unfairly debated and interpreted, keeping a lid on other dimension of the issue.
Evidence circulated among political circles of the West indicates a different version of sex slavery taking hold in Syria, dissimilar to its parallel in Medieval-like selling of Iraqi and Syrian women by ISIL.
According to the leaked documents, dirty hands of some Syrian opposition leaders, allegedly backed by their Western allies, are behind the deal, indicating that that a number of Syrian girls, who due to abject living conditions, had no choice but working in restaurants and hotels found themselves being exploited sexually by their masters.
Some reports claim more than 75 Syrian girls have thus far been identified. With their visas being taken away by their masters, the girls have been sexually abused. However, the number can go up drastically if other whereabouts are identified.
The shocking point, meanwhile, is that this sex slavery has been linked with financing terrorist groups in Syria. During the war time in Syria, millions of petrodollars have been channeled into terrorist groups to continue more blood shedding and as a consequence it is natural that corruption emerges.
From the very beginning, financiers who fanned the flames of conflict in Syria already knew that sums of their dirty donations are used to recruit new fighters to be employed at different levels.
Some of these fighters such as Haytham Manna and Michel Kilo, who were among the first anti-government forces, acknowledged that donations to the terrorist groups brought about corruption among them, so that financial resources were used to purchase expensive, stately villas in different European countries and received monthly sums from governments such as Saudi Arabia.
In addition, some of these opposition groups’ members turned to sex slavery, opening whorehouses in Syria’s neighbors. In a sense, this investment fell within the scope of investment in terrorism so as to support their hotels and recreational sites.
Relevant investigation is in progress and concerns among opposition groups, particularly pro-democracy and –Western ones, that further leaking of the information can cost them a high price both in Syria and abroad. Consequences become more challenging when these sex slaves get back home, narrating their fate.
Now the question arises as whether the West still remains silent once more details of the dossier come out?
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