Damascus – In five years of civil war, 400,000 Syrians have been killed and another 70,000 have perished due to a lack of basics such as clean water and healthcare, the Guardian newspaper reported on Thursday.
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With those injured in the conflict, that amounts to more 11 percent of the population, it said, citing the Syrian Centre for Policy Research.
A U.S.-led coalition is trying to destroy Islamic State militants in Syria and wants President Bashar al-Assad to go. But Russia and Iran are propping up Assad and oppose the opponents of Assad who are being supported by the West its Arab allies such as Saudi Arabia.
About 400,000 of the deaths were directly due to violence, while 70,000 died because they didn’t have proper healthcare, medicine, clean water or housing.
It said 1.9 million people had been wounded. Life expectancy has dropped from 70 in 2010 to 55.4 in 2015. Overall economic losses are estimated at $255 billion, the Guardian said.
And the UN is only concerned with Israel killing terrorists who attack Israelis. The UN is nothing but anti-Semitics hypocrites.
and where is the NYT ? 1/2 million killed not a peep. 3 terrorist killed in self defence its ‘# Palistinian Killed’ in ‘cycle’ of violence !!!
Am I understanding this correctly – Assad would rather kill half a million of his people than have democratic elections?
O where is paris on this?sweden?hello world,u r a whole bunch of hypocrites and israel is crazy also for not being more clear!!
I don’t see the Neturei Karta nuts protesting this
Where are all the peace loving flotillas? Where’s the foreign ministers of France and Sweden? Where’s Ban Ki-Moon? Where’s John Bal-Kerry? Where is everyone????????????? Oh, I forgot. Israel’s not involved.
and oh yeahhh ban ki moon has no comment on arab on arabs violence