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Activists denounce death of over 230,000 people in Syria
At least 230,618 people have died in Syria since the start of the civil war in March 2011. Of this total, around 70,000 were civilians. Those are the numebrs revealed today by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Among the civilians, there are at least 11,493 minors and 7,371 women, who were killed directly or indirectly by the war being fought by the Syrian government against western supported terrorists. In the opposition camp, there were at least 72 363 casualties, of which 31,247 were foreign fighters from radical groups such as the terrorist organization Islamic State (IS) and the Front Nusra, the Syrian branch of Al Qaeda. These groups have been and continue to be supported by the United States through its partners in the region in the same way that the US is now supporting Saudi Arabia in its bombing campaign against Yemen. On the government side, at least 85,570 people died: 49, 106 were members of the armed forces, while 32,533 others were members of pro-government groups that fight along government forces. Additionally, 4,000 members of the Lebanese Shiite organization Hezbollah and Shiite militiamen taht supported the Syrian government were also killed in combat. All these fatalities do not count around 3,191 people whose origin is still of unknown. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that there have been more than 1.6 million people injured in more than four years of conflict and that eleven million people have been displaced from their homes. The NGOs warned that the total count does not include the more than 20,000 missing people who were put in prisons by the Assad government, or the 5,000 people that have been kidnapped by ISIS. Te numbers have also omitted an estimated 7,000 prisoners who apparently died in the hands of regime opponents and 2,000 kidnapped by Islamist factions accused of collaborating with the Syrian authorities. The report does not rule out that the death toll could be higher because of the secrecy with which those involved in the war keep their accounting of casualties and the difficulty in accessing some areas. Read the rest below at the source link
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