Massacre balance sheet of ISIS-Al Nusra in Syria: 4,563
The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) has issued a report on the toll of Syrian victims killed by extremist groups in Syria.
The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) has issued a report on the toll of Syrian victims killed by extremist groups in Syria. According to the figures of SNHR, ISIS has killed 4,197 people since the foundation of the organisation, while the death toll reaches to 4,563 when the killings carried by Al-Nusra are added to the figures. Those killed by AL-Nusra groups were mostly civilians.
The report says 1,506 of those killed by the extremists were civilians, including 219 children and 213 women, while 3,057 were armed individuals.
According to the report ISIS has killed 1,231 civilians including 174 children and 163 women in Syria. The distribution of the death toll of the civilians according to the Syrian provinces is as follows: Aleppo, 479, including 66 children and 61 women: Deyr ez-Zor, 233, including 25 children and 21 women, Haseke, 143, including 36 children and 31 women.
SNHR further reported that ISIS has killed 2,966 armed individuals, including 152 persons in Deyr ez-Zor, 110 in Aleppo, 237 in Idlib and 138 in Raqqa.
The report states that Al Nusra groups mostly killed civilians, a total of 275 persons, while 82 of those, including 6 children and 20 women, were killed in Hama, 53, including 14 children, 12 women in Homs, 38, including 3 children and 48 women in Idlib.
Al Nusra killed 91 armed individuals according to the report of SNHR. The distribution of the death toll of armed individuals killed by Al-Nusra according to the Syrian provinces is: 33 in Aleppo; 28 in Idlib and 10 in rural areas of Damascus.
The report of the SNHR ends with the following conclusion: “SNHR believes that from the documented events that there are strong grounds to consider the killings practiced by the extremist groups amount to crimes against humanity, according to Article VII of the Rome Statute, as these groups have violated international humanitarian law through indiscriminate shelling, and by executions of prisoners, and these constitute war crimes, in addition to the shelling causing damage to civilian property”.
