The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

About 8000 civilians including 3123 children and woman are among more than 18000 people killed by the Russian strikes in 35 months of military operations in Syria

35 consecutive months of killing, destroying, massacres, obliterating the past, eliminating the present, and ending the future, all of that was practiced by Russia which has repeatedly tried to emerge as a pacifist, as the one coming to bring peace and security to the Syrian territory, all these months have been enough time before the Russian forces to slaughter the Syrian people, in order to satisfy the insatiability of the blood sucker of and killers of this people and to silence it, to achieve their personal interests in this country and controlling most of it, where the Russian hand had a great role in displacing the Syrian people and change their population, and it did not succeed in emerging as a hand of peace, it was rather a lethal hand every time, the pace of killing rises and decreases as it wishes, and the victims will always be of the Syrian people.

The direct Russian military intervention alongside the Syrian regime turned the regime from a big loser to the biggest winner in terms of military influence, where the Russian deception and cunning were the first pillars for the Russians to achieve their purpose in Syria, along with the insane killing and the heavy and intense shelling, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored the regime and its allies when the Russian Forces began their military operations in Syria on the 30th of September 2015, back then the regime used to control about 48200 square kilometers of Syria’s area which is 26% of its total area, but its control expanded after a continuous ground military action since the beginning of 2017, and today, the 30th of August 2018 it controls about 112993 km² which is 61.1% of the Syrian geographical area, the advancement operations took place mainly at the expense of the “Islamic State” organization, and then at the expense of the rebel and Islamic factions, and the expansions took place at the expense of the rebel and Islamic factions through military operations and “reconciliations”, of which the Russians have not been committed to, and most of the time the Russians turned a blind eye on the excesses of the regime and its members.

Russia’s direct interfering and killing have caused thousands of casualties and wounded in 35 months of its participation in the direct military operations on the Syrian territory, since the start of its strikes on the 30th of September 2015, until the 30th of August 2018, in which the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights was able to document the death of 18066 civilians and fighters of the rebel and Islamic Factions, Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham (al-Nusra Front formerly) and the “Islamic state” organization, who were killed by thousands of airstrikes which targeted several provinces of Syria.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented the death of 41 civilians including 25 children and 7 women, they were killed in Russian raids since the 30th of April 2018 until the 30th of July 2018.

The casualties of 35 months of the Russian bombardment were:

– 1929 children under the age of eighteen, 1194 citizen women over the age of eighteen and 4846 males and young men.

– 5227 members of the “Islamic state” organization.

– 4870 fighters of the rebel and Islamic factions, Fath al-Sham Front, the Islamic Turkestan Party, and fighters of Arab and foreign nationalities.

It is worth mentioning that Russia recently used the “Thermite” substance in their airstrikes, which is composed of aluminum powder and iron oxide, and causes burns because it continues to ignite for about 180 seconds, and it is inside the bombs used by Russian warplanes in recent weeks of bombing the Syrian territory, it is a cluster incendiary bombs, its type is “RBK-500 ZAB 2.5 SM” which weighs about 500 kg (about 1100 pounds) dropped by the military aircrafts, and carry small sized bombs anti-individuals and anti-vehicles of the type ((AO 2.5 RTM)), between 50 -110 small sized bombs stuffed with “Thermite”, which outpour out of it when they explode, the range of this anti-individuals and anti-vehicles bombs is between 20-30 meters.

On the other hand, the regime’s warplanes and Helicopters have finished their 9th months of the 4th consecutive year of escalating their shelling on the Syrian territory from east to west and from north to south, targeting the Syrian cities, towns, villages and farms, by tens of thousands of explosive barrels and raids, which cause great destruction in the infrastructure and the public facilities and material damage to the property of the citizens, leaving human losses in every time, in which the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has documented since the 20th October 2014 until the 30th of August 2018, more than 139583 raids at least, carried out by the warplanes and helicopter of Bashar al-Assad’s regime, where the helicopters bombed the Syrian Territory by more than 69089 barrel bombs, while the warplanes carried out 70494 raids at least.

This violent bombardment during the 46 months, has killed thousands and injured tens of thousands, in tens of massacres witnessed in the Syrian cities and areas, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has documented since the 20th of October 2014 until the 30th of August 2018, the death of 13010 civilian citizens, they are 2978 children under the age of eighteen, 1973 citizen women over the age of eighteen and 8059 men, all were killed the bombardment by warplanes and helicopters, in addition to the killing, they have also injured more than 78 thousands other civilians, during 46 months, thousands of them have amputated limbs and permanent disabilities.

The raids, airstrikes and bombing also resulted in to the death of at least 7554  fighters from the rebel and Islamic factions, Fath al-Sham Front, the “Islamic state”, the Islamic Turkestan Party and several other factions. The raids, airstrikes and bombing also injured thousands of others.

While the death toll of civilians who were killed in airstrikes by warplanes and helicopters of the regime of Bashar al-Assad since the beginning of the revolution in March 2011 until the 30th of August 2018; have reached 25572 civilian casualties, they were: 16191 men, 5739 children under the age of eighteen and 3642 citizen women over the age of eighteen.

We in the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, although the Russian side is continuing to declare allegations and lies which assert that its warplanes and rocket strikes did never kill citizens, still see that the Russian Federation – the permanent member of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), is still continuing to kill Syrian citizens, amid the continuation of the International Community’s silence and ignorance about these massacres and crimes committed against the Syrian people, by Russia, which it carries out under the pretext of fighting “terrorism”, while the International Community did nothing except media condemnations through it and through its United Nations special envoy to Syria about the ongoing crimes committed against the Syrian people, and we, through publishing the documented statistics of human losses, which the civilian Syrians are their main victims due to the military operations in Syria, seeking to send a message to the international community, carried through the cries and pain of the Syrian people, perhaps these shocking statistics, cries and pain may move the conscience of this community to act for the immediate sopping of the ongoing murders against the Syrian citizens, and we renew our strong condemnation against killing citizens in Syrian, and call on the UNSC and the UN to work harder to stop the daily killing against the Syrian citizens who seek to reach a state of liberty, democracy, justice and equality, and to bring the criminals to the specialized international courts, so they get their punishment.

High resolution link of an infographic about the death toll of the Russians bombardment on the Syrian ground, since Russia’s direct military operations at the end of September 2015

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