German
Development Minister Gerd Müller has told a newspaper of the government's plans
to create a care facility for the victims of "Islamic State"
violence. Germany has the highest number of aslyum seekers in Europe.
Deutsche Welle, 22 Dec 2014
German
Development Minister Gerd Müller told the mass-circulation newspaper Bild on
Monday that Berlin has plans to create a trauma center in Germany for the
victims of mass rape carried out by "Islamic State" militants (IS) in
Syria and Iraq.
Müller said
while on a visit to Iraq he spoke to five young girls who had been captured by
IS and raped. Three of them were pregnant as a result.
"We
have to take care of such girls," Müller told the paper, saying that a
care facility in Germany could serve at least 100 women and girls.
He did not
provide a timetable for the project nor did he say where in Germany such a
facility would be established.
Müller's
statements came after a United Nations report revealed last month the extent of
the crimes perpetrated by IS on the people living in the cities and towns they
capture. The UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria released a document full of
harrowing descriptions of massacres, torture, sexual enslavement and forced
pregnancy.
Influx of
asylum seekers bring right-leaning protests
Germany is
Europe's top destination for asylum seekers. Around 230,000 asylum applications
are expected in 2015, up from an initial estimate of 200,000.
The
increase in the flow of asylum seekers has spawned populist a movement, often
called PEGIDA ("Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the
West"), which has held demonstrations against what they see as the
Islamization of Germany in cities like Bonn, Düsseldorf, and Kassel.
In Dresden, the group has held protests some thousands strong every Monday for weeks. The
movement is often accompanied by counter demonstrators under the banner of
No-PEGIDA.
es/pfd (AFP, epd)
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