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Syria death toll tops 100,000, activist group says

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syrian banner if you dont helpus we will be killedA Syrian activist group says more than 100,000 people have been killed since the start of the country’s conflict 27 months ago.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which has been tracking the death toll through a network of activists in Syria, said Wednesday that 100,191 have died. Of those, 36,661 are civilians, it says.

On the government side, 25,407 are members of President Bashar Assad’s armed forces, 17,311 pro-government fighters and 169 Hezbollah militants, who have fought alongside army troops.

Deaths among Assad’s opponents included 13,539 rebels, 2,015 army defectors and 2,518 foreign fighters battling against the regime.

Earlier this month, the Observatory, which remains a pro-opposition organization, first said its statistics showed Assad’s backers — both uniformed troops and unofficial militia members — represented a far higher proportion of the deaths from the drawn-out crisis than has been previously reported.

Also in June, the U.N. raised its official tally of those killed in the conflict to 93,000 between March 2011 when the crisis started and end of April this year.

CBS News

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74 responses to “Syria death toll tops 100,000, activist group says”

  1. 5thDrawer Avatar
    5thDrawer

    Soon they will need to add deaths in the ‘camps’ and other places of poor accommodation.
    ‘Stats’ are always a little late in arriving, of course.

  2. 5thDrawer Avatar
    5thDrawer

    Soon they will need to add deaths in the ‘camps’ and other places of poor accommodation.
    ‘Stats’ are always a little late in arriving, of course.

  3. man-o-war Avatar
    man-o-war

    Finally!! These numbers make more sense. It seemed like the figures had been presented in a way to suggest that Assad murdered 100,000 people. According to these figures only 36,000 civilians have been killed and thats from both sides. The rest are combatants. Genocide? I don’t think so.

    1. 5thDrawer Avatar
      5thDrawer

      Well, man-O, even that is a fair few too many – but probably mostly by bombing homes.
      I assume that also includes the ones before there ever was an FSA anyway.

      1. man-o-war Avatar
        man-o-war

        I’m sure the civilian death count is much higher. It’s just nice to see the 100,000 deaths being broken down so you can get a “clearer” picture of what’s happening. We just need to acknowledge that both anti-Assad and pro-assad groups have lost civilians in this civil war.

  4. man-o-war Avatar
    man-o-war

    Finally!! These numbers make more sense. It seemed like the figures had been presented in a way to suggest that Assad murdered 100,000 people. According to these figures only 36,000 civilians have been killed and thats from both sides. The rest are combatants. Genocide? I don’t think so.

    1. 5thDrawer Avatar
      5thDrawer

      Well, man-O, even that is a fair few too many – but probably mostly by bombing homes.

      1. man-o-war Avatar
        man-o-war

        I’m sure the civilian death count is much higher. It’s just nice to see the 100,000 deaths being broken down so you can get a “clearer” picture of what’s happening. We just need to acknowledge that both anti-Assad and pro-assad groups have lost civilians in this civil war.

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  7. Ilan David Avatar
    Ilan David

    36,661 civilians. 25,407 Syrian Arab Army members. 17,311 pro-government fighters & 169 Hezbollah. 13,539 “rebels”, 2,015 defectors & 2,518 foreign “mujaheddin”.

    Now even NATO’s SOHR has confirmed that no genocide is taking place in Syria but rather a NATO sponsored war against the Syrian state and army!

    54 civilian deaths a day was the normal death toll by natural causes… what war?

    its still lower than the 133 people who shoot each other in the United States everyday or the 744 woman who are raped in the United States everyday!

    we all know what the reality of Syria is and that the Syrian Arab Army is fighting against NATO’s death squads.

    No NATO air support comes for CIA-Al-Qaida, Homs will be recaptured eventually and the “jihad” junkies will continue to be pushed back and driven to more desperate acts of suicide terrorism…

    1. 5thDrawer Avatar
      5thDrawer

      Well, you’re a light in a dark tunnel, Ilan. NATO caused it all I’m sure.

      But getting away from political theory ….
      Did you ever consider that ‘talking it up’ has people actually re-considering the ‘genocide models’ – and perhaps to something less than Hiltler’s 6 mil. total. (give or take a couple dozen)
      For instance, if you live in a village of 1000, and 100 of them are randomly butchered, you could consider it at the very least a ‘pogrom’ against that village. Sure, you don’t have the huge numbers to fill accounting pages, but when you’re one of the surviving villagers you might even describe it as a genocide – especially if it wiped out completely two or three generations of a single family.

      1. Ilan David Avatar
        Ilan David

        Genocide models have been up for debate for a very long time but who can escape television and politics.
        politics has made the “Armenian Genocide” a talking point on television and generally… how do you decide a genocide? by vote of congress? it either is or it is not.

        Holocaust too is a “media” perception. sure perhaps we can prove 5.9 million jews were INTENTIONALLY killed because they were jews but was 25 million slavs not also INTENTIONALLY killed for Lebensraum?
        is it a genocide because the overall percentage was higher?

        it is a genocide because the INTENT is to eradicate.

        the usual deaths per day stats are ABSOLUTELY CRITICAL. not only does it prove perception but totally explains mass “media” paralysis.
        more people have been decapitated in Mexico in the past 10 years than all the decapitations in the Middle East for the past 1000 years. yet the perception, because of “media”, is that the Middle East has a particular problem with decapitations.
        Jeffrey Dahmer ate more people than all the cannibals in Syria.
        short attention spans is no defense for ignorance.

        is Syria a bigger conflict because apparently 100,000 people have died in two years?
        1,200,000 have died in the EU’s mercenary war in Congo over the same period! is that less critical than Syria?

        this is “media” perception. Angelina Jolie embellishes crisis because she it told to for general perception. not for fact.

        ignore everything else. just tell me which war NATO is not involved in?

        1. 5thDrawer Avatar
          5thDrawer

          NATO is because SOME people WANT protection. Simple.
          It was formed to keep PEACE in their part of the world – by FORCE if necessary.
          It’s been effective, I think we can say.

          1. Ilan David Avatar
            Ilan David

            no need to confirm your fascist credentials with me, i already know. maintaining peace by force is classic totalitarianism. i’m sure you “kill for peace” too. hahaha…

            NATO is Amerika, Amerika is NATO. the frightened little children of Europe who were divided between the Soviet Empire and the Amerikan Empire, do you think they were happy with either?
            with the Soviet Empire gone, Amerika swallowed the rest of Europe. is Europe happy with its new occupation?
            poor propaganda only fools the dumb.

            i repeat. Perhaps we can prove 5.9 million jews killed in Europe during the WWII genocide but the actual number is less as anyone who opposed the Nazi state was liquidated, including handicapped, homosexuals, mentally ill, anti-national socialism Germans, Gypsies and on and on… bringing the total number to 5.9 million. this number does not include the genocide of 25 million Slavs killed for Lebensraum! PERHAPS 24 instead of 25 million Slavs were killed but the fact is that the number is much higher.
            lets not repeat documentaries again. there are documents for some not all 5.9 million people.

          2. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            What’s your ‘educated guess’ on Chinese by Japanese? And then Chinese by Chinese? And then Tibetans by Chinese? And then there’s the Koreas …. how many starve to death in the north as opposed to the south?
            And poor fascist me … working to save a planet … TELLS you that more than 2.3 babies per family will destroy us all and you make 20 just to try to prove me wrong – but send them off to battle and balance the numbers in such a better and more-enlightened godly way.

          3. Ilan David Avatar
            Ilan David

            NATO is just not Amerika? who else is NATO? surely not the wheelbarrow from Italy and nurse from Romania?

          4. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            Ask NATO – Dork (On their front page – by Year Signed On)
            And Decisions are by CONCENSUS, you will note.

            BELGIUM (1949)
            CANADA (1949)
            DENMARK (1949)
            FRANCE (1949)
            ICELAND (1949)
            ITALY (1949)
            LUXEMBOURG (1949)
            NETHERLANDS (1949)
            NORWAY (1949)
            PORTUGAL (1949)
            THE UNITED KINGDOM (1949)
            THE UNITED STATES (1949)
            GREECE (1952)
            TURKEY (1952)
            GERMANY (1955)
            SPAIN (1982)
            CZECH REPUBLIC (1999)
            HUNGARY (1999)
            POLAND (1999)
            BULGARIA (2004)
            ESTONIA (2004)
            LATVIA (2004)
            LITHUANIA (2004)
            ROMANIA (2004)
            SLOVAKIA (2004)
            SLOVENIA (2004)
            ALBANIA (2009)
            CROATIA (2009)

            NATO’s essential purpose is to safeguard the freedom and security of its members through political and military means.
            POLITICAL – NATO promotes democratic values and encourages consultation and cooperation on defence and security issues to build trust and, in the long run, prevent conflict.
            MILITARY – NATO is committed to the peaceful resolution of disputes.
            If diplomatic efforts fail, it has the military capacity needed to undertake crisis-management operations. These are carried out under Article 5 of the Washington Treaty – NATO’s founding treaty – or under a UN mandate, alone or in cooperation with other countries and international organizations.

          5. AntiFSA Avatar
            AntiFSA

            Crisis management operations. Is that what they are calling it these days. So what happened in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, and not to mention the drones being used in Pakistan and Yemen which have been targeting civilian areas is Crisis management operations. Thanks for the insight 5th. I always thought it was outright murder. Silly me. :)))

          6. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            Well, you can read about EVERY conflict they have been in – in their history section … I suppose if you don’t think there’s been any crisis in any of those places (although somebody must have, to call on Nato for ‘help’) then you would think they should not have been there. In fact, many of the citizens of those countries think their tax dollars were wasted in many cases … BUT they are also happy, as I said originally, at having had the protection for themselves since the inception by the original signatories.
            Bringing up the weapons of war is a different topic than what started this. Drones or gas or bomblets is simply equipment – some of which has been banned as you KNOW. And NATO is also NOT the UN.

          7. AntiFSA Avatar
            AntiFSA

            Name me one crisis 5th where it was justified for NATO to go in and as you put it HELP. As for the the UN and NATO being different, yes in name maybe, however they are under the same dominate and ruthless umbrella. Plain and simple. If theirs something in it for them, THEN THEY GO IN AND HELP and destroy the country in the process

          8. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            So, tell them, not me. I’d be happy not paying the tax dollars for them.
            (Of course, Some megalomaniac might cost me more than dollars … hmmm)
            The Ilan guy thinks ‘they’ create every conflict in the world and exist to dump on his favorite people. And that they are ONLY Americans. Perhaps you do too. I don’t happen to think so, and believe their ‘home-page’. Just like you think I should believe ‘the brotherhoods’ home page … I guess .. if I knew where it was … and was interested in being a homie.
            But Tell me, what is the gist of their ‘charter’ and what benefit they bring to humanity and the countries they try to run … I mean, protect. I’ll believe you.

          9. AntiFSA Avatar
            AntiFSA

            5th, I just love how you like to run away from a question by asking a question. :)))

          10. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            Well, we could fill pages – but they are already filled in the Nato-Home-Page.
            Instead of asking a question, I will make it as a statement. You want ‘one’.
            ‘I can’t imagine where we would ALL be if ‘North Korea’ owned all of Korea.’
            I’ll give you two:
            ‘On the matter of food for the ‘starving masses’, here’s one interesting concept they had … and the only problem I see is that they failed to take into account the fact that in some strange lands, the people insist on making many more babies to starve no matter their circumstances.’

            “A NATO Science Programme was one of the proposals made in the 1956 Report of the Committee of Three, which identified scientific cooperation amongst member nations as a way of creating international partnerships and promoting security. A NATO Science Committee, composed of experts from member nations, first met in March 1958 to evaluate, oversee and fund the programme. In the ensuing half century, the focus of NATO-sponsored research has evolved from Cold War military issues to the “Challenges of Modern Society” like the environment, food supplies, terrorism and cyber security. Since the early 1990s, science has been a key component of NATO’s cooperative interactions with non-member countries.”

          11. Ilan David Avatar
            Ilan David

            wow! copy and paste! did you just realize you could do that?

            i’m sure the tens of millions of people murdered by NATO will agree with their website!

            hahaha… consensus!?! only after Amerika consents to airlift the pork sausages supplied by Spain to Amerikan troops and mercenaries in Afghanistan.

          12. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            I’m of the generation (and a few Basic writers) that invented it, Dork.
            You asked for ‘facts’. Voila.

          13. Ilan David Avatar
            Ilan David

            Pardon me but i do not speak donkey!
            i’ve noticed this being a common problem with people who fail at facts, reality and life… they end by making noises… “F&^%” “dork” “moo”

            oh and there’s a reason why technology moves forward and not backwards, the next generation is always smarter.

          14. Hannibal Avatar
            Hannibal

            This is so true except for you if you noticed you move backward… You have this inability to progress into the next best thing… namely a FREE LEBANON… MOOOOOOOOO….

          15. Ilan David Avatar
            Ilan David

            there are those noises again… check your brain for gas.

          16. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            Except in the Middle East MEN.

    2. MekensehParty Avatar
      MekensehParty

      you forgot to mention that the zarkonians are fighting alongside NATO’s death squads while the gamma centaurians are standing on the fence momentarily before throwing their weight behind the betelgueusians in their supremacist fight to control the Magellan galaxy…
      for someone who criticizes the words of a sci-fi writer you sure live in a fantasy world…

      1. 5thDrawer Avatar
        5thDrawer

        LOL …..

        1. MekensehParty Avatar
          MekensehParty

          😉
          Don’t eff with fiction

      2. Ilan David Avatar
        Ilan David

        still no facts? thought so.

        1. MekensehParty Avatar
          MekensehParty

          Why are you asking ME for facts when you just wrote a fictional analysis of the situation in Syria?
          You go get facts to support your bag of bs!

          1. Ilan David Avatar
            Ilan David

            what makes it fictional, CNN?

            is NATO not supplying weapons to its death squad proxies in Syria?
            is the GCC not supplying takfiri lunatics to blow themselves up in Syria?

            what is fictional?
            if you want to rid the Middle East of dictators, start with NATO’s friends in the GCC, not their enemies.

          2. MekensehParty Avatar
            MekensehParty

            Nothing about what you said is true. All of this is fantasy, not even speculations.
            Friends and enemies alike will fall under the people’s demand.
            We gave up our biggest friend in the region simply because a clear majority wanted him out. Was there NATO death squads in Egypt or Tunisia?
            The US under Obama has understood that it’s time to listen to the people.
            I wish your buddies in Russia and china would understand the same… Oh wait, if they do there wont be a Russia or China anymore.

          3. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            ……….
            ‘Your sons and your daughters are beyond your command;
            And the old world is rapidly aging ….
            Please get out of the new one if you can’t lend a hand,
            For the times, they are a changing.’
            😉

          4. MekensehParty Avatar
            MekensehParty

            The change is coming, there’s no escaping and the “old” better get out without the massacres…
            Egypt which we were afraid would fall under the brotherhood in a remake of the Iranian republic after the revolutions, is changing the face of the Arab world yet one more time. Maybe tomorrow isn’t a better day for many in the ME but on the long run the tide has turned.

          5. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            We live in hope … and that includes Hannibal. 😉

          6. CriminalGeagea Avatar
            CriminalGeagea

            hannibal is hopeless

          7. CriminalAoun Avatar
            CriminalAoun

            Screw you mf. You are a hopeless case. Your existence is depleting our planet from oxygen. Please disappear so that someone intelligent can have a chance for life.

          8. CriminalGeagea Avatar
            CriminalGeagea

            who was murdered by aoun please?

          9. CriminalAoun Avatar
            CriminalAoun

            At least Geagea paid the price in prison. Aoun the lunatic sold Lebanon and his soul to the devil you miscreant individual. Did Berri, Jumblatt Aoun and all the rest of the other criminals serve anything for their crimes. Geagea is the saviour for Lebanon and all Lebanese should support him. May God protect him and protect Lebanon from all evil. May Aoun suffer tenfolds what his soldiers suffered when he ran away like a rat and left them at the mercy of the Syrians.

          10. Hannibal Avatar
            Hannibal

            Stubbornly Lebanese you should note…

          11. CriminalGeagea Avatar
            CriminalGeagea

            the only change for you arabic descendants is that you will be back on camels

          12. Ilan David Avatar
            Ilan David

            That is so funny… was Hilary Clinton the first to stand shoulder to shoulder, congratulating Ennahda and the Muslim Brotherhood because they were enemies?

            you are as confused and deluded as the rest of the GCC followers of this region.

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