Over 215,000 dead in four years of Syria war: monitor

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File photo of  a funeral of Hezbollah fighters killed in Syria.  674 Hezbollah fighters have been killed in Syria  according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights
File photo of a funeral of Hezbollah fighters killed in Syria. 674 Hezbollah fighters have been killed in Syria according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights

More than 215,000 people have been killed in Syria in four years of conflict, a monitoring group said on Sunday as the brutal civil war entered its fifth year.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it had documented the deaths of 215,518 people in Syria since March 2011, among them more than 66,000 civilians.

Some 5,000 people have been killed in the past five weeks alone.

The civilian death toll includes 10,808 children, and nearly 7,000 women, according to the group.

While civilians accounted for nearly a third of the deaths, the majority of those killed in the conflict have been combatants.

On the government side, 46,138 soldiers have been killed, along with more than 30,000 Syrian pro-regime militiamen, the Observatory said.

In addition, 3,401 Shiite fighters from abroad have been killed in battle alongside regime forces, among them 674 from Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement.

On the rebel side, the Observatory gives separate death tolls for fighters from jihadist and non-jihadist groups.

It reported the deaths of nearly 27,000 jihadists, from the Islamic State group and the Al-Qaeda affiliate Al-Nusra Front.

It said more than 39,000 other rebel fighters had been killed, but included in that figure Kurdish militia killed battling jihadists in the north and east.

It reported the deaths of a further 3,147 people who had not been identified.

Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman said the figures were almost certainly not complete.

The death toll “is certainly higher than the more than 215,000 we have recorded because of the large number of missing people whose fate is unknown.”

He said some 20,000 people had disappeared in regime custody.

The fate of many thousands more civilians and fighters from all sides who have been kidnapped also remains unknown.

“More than 215,000 people have been killed and the international community remains silent and not a single crime has been punished by an international court,” Abdel Rahman said.

“This impunity only encourages the murderers to continue their crimes.”
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7 responses to “Over 215,000 dead in four years of Syria war: monitor”

  1. 5thDrawer Avatar
    5thDrawer

    “not a single crime has been punished by an international court,” Abdel Rahman said.”
    Ummmmm … right …. and the ‘arresting officers’ are … errrr … ummm …
    Maybe they are the dead ones in some cases?? Why not make it 250,000 or so now … lots were buried in the countryside before anyone began counting – add in another 50,000 for starvation or stress or diseases caused by it, or freezing … even in refugee camps. Add ‘boat people’ who sank …
    Arrest perpetrators?? WHOLE TRIBES are ‘perpetrators’ !!!

  2. 5thDrawer Avatar
    5thDrawer

    Covered in the ‘secret Burial grounds’, one has to wonder how deep they are going with ‘stacking’, before everyone is standing on top of them. What’s the acreage of that place?? I assume IT has the electricity for Air Conditioning …. steel from old Syria/Russia army tanks in the beams??

    1. Turkey has criticised United States Secretary of State John Kerry for suggesting that negotiations would have to be opened with President Bashar al-Assad to end the conflict in Syria.,,aljazeera..some body blocked me there….I fire America in every comments..America have many faces.

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        5thDrawer

        Well, Arzatna … since they went to the USA, they can’t say too much bad about it, I guess.
        Gotta keep those licences intact for the $$ … but block you?? I can’t imagine it. :-))))

  3. Patience2 Avatar
    Patience2

    I’ve heard it said that Hafez only killed about 20,000. The son surely outdid the father this time!

    1. some news said..he killed 40 Sunnis.

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