Syria Death Toll for January 2019 Nearly at 900
In a report released by a British-based monitor on the war in Syria, Russia, the Syrian regime, Turkish border guards, and terror groups, have all been held accountable for the deaths of nearly 900 people in January 2019. This includes 188 civilian casualties, including women and children.
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, bombardment by Russian forces killed five civilians in January, 2019, which included a child and a woman.
On the other hand, the report revealed that an infant was also killed in Syrian regime raids.
At least 37 citizens including eight children and three women were killed in shelling by the regime forces, the report added.
Another civilian woman was killed by the Turkish border guards. The UK-based war monitor also documented seven massacres during January, which left 77 civilian casualties, including 27 children and seven women.
In one of the documented massacres, regime forces staged assaults that claimed 11 citizen’s lives, including two children and one woman.
The report underscored that the summits calling for dialogue and a political solution have all failed, and United Nations Security Council resolutions have also failed in curbing the bloodshed that is ravaging Syria nationwide.
Reports on what are the estimated deaths in the nearly eight -year -old Syrian civil war, varies according to opposition activist groups between 367,965 and 560,000.
And, according to estimates by the United Nations, more than 400,000 people have been killed in Syria since the start of the war. The UN reports that, as of January 2019, more than 5.6 million have fled the country, and over 6 million have been internally displaced. Many refugees have fled to Jordan and Lebanon, straining already weak infrastructure and limited resources. More than 3.4 million Syrians have fled to Turkey, and many have attempted to seek refuge in Europe.
According to the latest report released by the US non-profit think tank, the Council on Foreign Relations, external military intervention-including the provision of arms and military equipment, training, air strikes, and even troops-in support of proxies in Syria threatens to prolong the conflict.
The Observatory, for its part, reiterated its call for international parties to exert more efforts to stop the bloodshed of the Syrian people, who faced tyranny and injustice in fighting for their rights to democracy, freedom and equality.