Forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad hold their weapons as they walk in Aleppo's historic citadel October 1, 2014. Credit: Reuters/George Ourfalian
Over 120,000 Pro-Assad Fighters Killed In Syria Conflict: Monitoring Group -- Reuters
(Reuters) - More than 120,000 fighters supporting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad have been killed in the country's civil war since it began in 2011, a group monitoring the war said on Wednesday.
Syria's conflict began as a peaceful protest movement calling for reforms in 2011 but descended into civil war after a government crackdown. In total, more than 200,000 people have been killed and millions more have fled their homes.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said some 11,000 members of government forces and loyalist militias had been killed in the five months since Assad delivered an inauguration speech for a third presidential term.
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WNU Editor: For some regions of Syria .... destruction, war, and bloodshed are a daily occurrence .... but in other places there is normality .... The strange normality of life in the middle of Syria's war (BBC). Yup .... war is sometimes very strange.
3 comments:
The survivors on both
sides will be some of
the most battle-hardened
and vicious fighters
around. They won't be
able to just turn that
off and resume civilian
life.
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That's exactly right. No desk job's will be attractive to these guys.
So true .... and even decades after the conflict has ended. Case in point .... the vets who served on the Russian front from start to finish .... both Russian and German .... my father included .... scary guys.
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