Murder of Suzan Der Kirkour

Suzan Der Kirkour was a sixty-year-old Armenian woman (Christian by faith) - a retired gardener and Arabic teacher from al-Yaqoubiyeh village in Idlib, Syria. She used to provide various kind of help to the Kneye Village Church where she often helped youth achieve their baccalaureate.^[5]

The woman went missing on 8 July 2019. Worried by her absence, the priest sent parishioners to look for her. They found her lifeless body lying on the ground of her field on 9 July.^{[citation needed]}

The autopsy revealed that Suzanne had suffered the torture of repeated rape since the afternoon of Monday until the early morning of Tuesday (for about 9 hours).^[6] Later, she was stoned to death by unidentified persons.^[7]