Friday, March 14, 2014

Report: 146,000 People Killed in Syrian Civil War

Relatives inspect bodies to identify them at a school used as a field hospital in Aleppo's Bustan al-Qasr January 29, 2013. At least 65 people, apparently shot in the head, were found dead with their hands bound in a district of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on Tuesday, activists said. Opposition activists posted a video of a man filming at least 51 muddied male bodies alongside what they said was the Queiq River in the rebel-held Bustan al-Qasr neighbourhood of Aleppo. Reuters/Zain Karam

Report: More Than 146,000 People Killed in Syrian Civil War -- Time

The latest figure from the U.K.-based anti-government group, Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, helps quantify the massive toll of Syria's three-year civil war, with about half of those reported deaths consisting of civilians

More than 146,000 people have been killed in Syria’s three-year civil war, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Thursday.

The report from the Observatory, an anti-government group that tracks violence across Syria, offers an updated death toll since the United Nations said in July that at least 100,000 people had been killed.

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Update: Syrian death toll exceeds 146,000 as fourth year begins -group -- Reuters

My Comment: It should also be noted that after three years of civil war .... this conflict has also produced the worst refugee and humanitarian disaster in recent history.

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