Damascus – At least 82,000 people have been killed and 12,500 others are missing after two years of civil war in Syria, the opposition Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Sunday.
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Most of the dead were killed by troops and militia loyal to President Bashar al-Assad and most of the missing are believed to have been detained by the government’s secret police and other loyalists, the monitoring group said.
“The vast majority of civilian victims were killed by the regime. Killings in unofficial jails are commonplace, and the conditions under which prisoners are held are horrific,” said Rami Abdulrahman, the Observatory’s president.
The Observatory, established by Abdulrahman in Britain seven years ago, said 4,788 children were among the 34,473 civilians killed. Another 12,916 anti-Assad fighters were killed, along with 1,924 army deserters, it said.
On the loyalist side, 16,729 troops and 12,000 militiamen and informers have been killed. The report said the fate of around 2,500 loyalist troops believed to be held by rebels is unknown.
“The figures we have are the documented killings” Abdulrahman said. “We estimate the total number of people killed since the revolt to have surpassed 120,000.”
…Which means that the actual number are probably around 200,000 (based on the nature of these matters)
thats odd, I don’t hear any of that news in any of the media, only hear what a terrible country israel is for how they treat terrorists
wonder how many people Syria has to kill for it actually to be all over the news
Why aren’t the world’s Moslems and the UN protesting these atrocities? They’re up in arms if Israel kills 1 armed terrorist. These are women and children, the old and the feeble being killed by Moslems in a Moslem country and there is silence. Seems odd that practitioners of the “religion of peace” kill their own with impunity.
imagine what they would do to the Jews. Thank God we have a strong Tzahal!
Almost like russians, who killed 100.000 Chechens 10 years ago (Chechens killed 10.000 russian soldiers)
To #2 , and others- The world was silent, including the Organization of African Unity, when 900,000 African civilians, men, women, and children, were slaughtered within a 90 day period, in Ruanda, pertaining to the genocidal conflict involving the Tutsis and the Hutus. This occurred only 19 years ago, in 1994. Therefore, don’t expect the world to show any sympathy, towards the victims of the Syrian civil war.
May it continue- just leave the children and women out of it.