WORLD_ SYRIA_ Syria death toll exceeds 150,000, activist group says

Syria death toll exceeds 150,000, activist group says

Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that it has documented 150,344 deaths in the conflict that started in March 2011.




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A woman sits with her children as food aid is distributed at the Yarmuk refugee camp in Damascus on March 31. The photo was released by the official Syrian Arab News Agency.


By: Barbara Surk The Associated Press, Published on Tue Apr 01 2014


BEIRUT—The death toll in Syria’s three-year conflict has exceeded 150,000, an activist group said Tuesday. The announcement came as fighting raged across the country, including an attack in the north that killed at least 31 people, nine of them children.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it has documented 150,344 deaths in the conflict that started in March 2011. The figure includes civilians, rebels and members of the Syrian military. It also includes militiamen fighting alongside President Bashar Assad’s forces and foreign fighters battling for Assad’s ouster on the rebels’ side.

The observatory bases its tally on information it receives from a network of informants on the ground inside Syria.

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In January, the UN said it had stopped updating its own tally of the Syrian dead because it could no longer verify the sources of information. Its last count, in late July, was at least 100,000.

Of those who died in the conflict, the majority — 75,487 — were civilians, including 7,985 children and 5,266 women, the observatory said. The number also includes 26,561 rebel fighters and 35,601 Syrian soldiers, as well as 22,879 Assad-loyal fighters and 11,220 foreign fighters battling on the opposition side.

Tuesday’s attack in the northern town of Maaret al-Artiq came in the form of a barrel bombing — a bombardment with containers stuffed with explosives rolled out of military helicopters, the observatory said.

Syria’s uprising began with largely peace protests against Assad’s rule. It has since evolved into a civil war with sectarian overtones, pitting predominantly Sunni Muslim rebels against Assad’s government, which is dominated by Alawites, a sect in Shiite Islam.

On the opposition side, Islamic extremists — including foreign fighters and Syrian rebels who have taken up hard-line Al Qaeda-style ideologies — have played an increasingly prominent role, dampening the West’s support for the rebellion to overthrow Assad.


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