WORLD_ SYRIA_ Syria toll rises to 136,000: NGO

Syria toll rises to 136,000: NGO

February 02, 2014
The Gulf Today


DAMASCUS: More than 136,000 people have been killed since the beginning of the Syrian conflict in March 2011, with January one of the bloodiest months on record, an NGO said on Saturday.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a monitoring group based in Britain, said the toll was now at least 136,227 people killed.

Among those are 47,998 civilians, including more than 7,300 children, the group said. “January was among the bloodiest months since the beginning of the conflict,” Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman said.

“We in the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights will continue to call on all actors on the international stage to do their humanitarian and moral duty to press for the Syrian file to be referred to the International Criminal Court,” the group said in a statement.

The group said it sought “the trial of the murderers of the Syrian people, and those who have collaborated with them.”

The Observatory’s last toll, at the end of December, stood at 130,433, but fierce fighting between rebels and the regime, as well as between rebels and extremists, has claimed nearly 6,000 lives since then.

The group said at least 31,629 opposition fighters, including more than 8,000 extremists, had been killed since the start of the conflict.

On the regime side, 53,167 soldiers and militiamen were killed, along with 271 members of Lebanon’s Shiite movement Hizbollah and 338 members of other foreign Shiite brigades fighting alongside the government.

The toll also includes 2,824 unidentified individuals whose deaths the Observatory has documented.

The group said the real toll could be much higher than recorded so far, citing “extreme secrecy” by rebels, jihadists and regime troops about the number of their dead.

The death toll kept on mounting on Saturday as at least nine people were killed when Syrian regime helicopters dropped explosive-filled barrels on two neighbourhoods of the northern city of Aleppo.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also reported at least seven people killed in a double car bombing carried out by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and targeting a rebel headquarters in Aleppo.

Among the dead in the twin car bombs in northeast Aleppo were two rebel fighters, including the commander of an Islamist brigade, and 5 civilians, the group said.

The violence in the northern town came a day after Syria’s Defence Minister General Fahd Al Freij visited parts of northern Aleppo province, where the army has made advances in recent weeks.

State news agency SANA said Freij “explained that he was visiting Aleppo to salute the heroic fighters of the Syrian Arab army.”

He said he was offering thanks for “their great victories and their liberation of many areas in Aleppo... the most important of which is Aleppo international airport and the surrounding area, which is now able to receive aircraft.”

Aleppo airport was closed for around a year because fighting in the surrounding area made it too dangerous for aircraft to land there.

But in November, the army gained ground in the area and the airport was reopened to air traffic on Jan.22.

Separately, at least two people were killed and six others wounded when a suicide car bomb exploded on Saturday in a Hizbollah stronghold on Lebanon’s northern border with Syria, a security source said.

Agencies



Chân thành cám ơn Quý Anh Chị ghé thăm "conbenho Nguyễn Hoài Trang Blog".
Xin được lắng nghe ý kiến chia sẻ của Quý Anh Chị trực tiếp tại Diễn Đàn Paltalk: 1Latdo Tapdoan Vietgian CSVN Phanquoc Bannuoc . 
Kính chúc Sức Khỏe Quý Anh Chị . 




conbenho
Tiểu Muội quantu
Nguyễn Hoài Trang
02022014
___________
Cộng sản Việt Nam là TỘI ÁC
Bao che, dung dưỡng TỘI ÁC là đồng lõa với TỘI ÁC