"110,371 people died in Syria since March 2011"
"110,371 people died in Syria since March 2011"
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has documented 110,371 casualties since the beginning of the uprisings in 18/3/2011, from the first casualty in Dera'a, up till 31/08/2013.
The Observatory remarked that these figures included 40,146 civilians, of whom 5,833 are children and 3,905 women, 15,992 rebel fighters, 2,128 defected soldiers and officers, 27,654 regular soldiers and officers, 2,726 unidentified casualties (documented by pictures and footages), 3,730 rebel fighters (most of whom are non-Syrian and others are unidentified), 17,824 popular defence committees, national defence forces, Shabiha and pro-regime informers, 171 fighters from the Lebanese Hezbollah.
The Observatory remarked that the death toll does not include more than 9,000 detainees and missing persons inside regime prisons and detention centres. Nor does it include more than 3,500 regular soldiers and officers held captives by rebel fighters.
We also estimate -said the Obervatory- the real number of casualties from regular forces and rebel fighters to be twice the number documented, because both sides are discreet about the human losses caused by clashes.
According to the Observatory, 5,493 people were killed in the country in August 2013. The figures include 3,109 civilians, among whom 124 were tortured to death in regime prisons, 365 children and 348 women, 1,140 rebel fighters, 1,186 regular soldiers, 700 non-Syrian and unidentified rebel fighters (most of whomare non-Syrian), 42 defected soldiers and officers, 386 national Defence forces and popular defence committees, 70 unidentified casualties.
"Given this massive number of casualties and these tragic human losses, who are not solely numbers but are lives horribly lost", the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said and called upon the UN security-general Mr. Ban Kimoon and the international community to exert all effort on ending the ongoing violence in Syria, to aid the Syrian people on establishing a democratic, civil, just and equal country and to maintain the rights of all Syrian components.
