More than 130,000 Dead since Start of Syria Conflict
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More than 130,000 people have been killed since the beginning of the conflict in Syria nearly three years ago, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Tuesday.
In a new tally, the group said 130,433 people have been killed since the conflict began in March 2011, among them 46,266 civilians.
They include more than 7,000 children and more than 4,600 women, the Britain-based watchdog said.
The group, which relies on a network of sources on the ground in Syria, said 52,290 pro-government fighters had been killed, among them more than 32,000 regular troops and 262 reinforcements from the Lebanon's Hizbullah.
On the rebel side, the group counted 29,083 deaths, including 6,913 fighters from jihadist groups like the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
The Observatory said it had also recorded the deaths of 2,794 unidentified individuals.
Syria's bloody conflict began in March 2011, with peaceful anti-government demonstrations.
The regime of President Bashar Assad cracked down on the protests, and the opposition took up arms.
The conflict has spiraled into an increasingly bloody civil war, with human rights groups accusing both sides of suspected war crimes.
31 December 2013, 16:02
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Syrian Observatory for Human Rights based in London, were against Assad long before the war in Syria started. This is just another example of how much people can whine, they scream they want freedom, when they freedom they wanted only caused destruction upon everyone.
31 December 2013, 17:25
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Mystic,
And you Sectarian mind was pro-Assad long before the war in Syria started (during the Syrian occupation of Lebanon) and you are one of those who thanked the Syrian army as they were leaving Lebanon ...... please tell me it is not so.
Poor Lebanon.
31 December 2013, 19:37
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Mystic - I hope that you start making more sense. You do know that you are defending a mass murder? When the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented abuses by rebel forces, some of these were shouting and screaming at them. While they made some errors (The so-called Adra massacre being one), they have been largely accurate in documenting abuses by both sides. It just happened that the regime is responsible for the OVERWHELMING majority of crimes in Syria.
31 December 2013, 22:46
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we've passed long time ago the 300k.
130k number doesnt count the 100k+ disappeared people and the 100k+ prisoners...
