Monthly death toll | 42 children and women among 193 people killed in March 2022
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented the death of 193 people in March 2022. The fatalities were distributed as follows:
Civilian death toll: 119 persons, including 32 children under the age of 18, and ten women over the age of 18, and they were as follows:
- 29 civilians, including 12 children in explosions of old ordnance.
- 33 civilians, including a child, were shot dead by unidentified persons
- 13 civilians, including two women and two children, were killed in “honour killings”, family and factional rivalries, and indiscriminate gunfire.
- 11 civilians, including four children and three women, were murdered.
- One civilian was killed in shelling and gunfire by regime forces.
- 11 civilians, including four children and five women, were killed in unknown circumstances.
- Six children died of poor health conditions.
- Five civilians died under torture in regime prisons.
- Five civilians, including a child, were killed by the Turkish border guard forces “Jandarma”.
- A child was killed by Islamist factions.
- A civilian was killed by ISIS.
- Three civilians, including one child, were killed by SDF.
Regime forces: 44
ISIS members: 9
Syrian fighters of Islamic factions, rebel factions and other movements and organisations: 7
Syrian members of Popular Committees, the National Defence Forces and regime-backed militias: 2
Jihadists: 1
Syria Democratic Forces and affiliated military formations: 7
Regime and Iran-backed Syrian fighters, mostly of the Shiite sect: 2
Regime and Iran-backed non-Syrian fighters, mostly of the Shiite sect: 2
SOHR activists have confirmed that five militiamen of the Lebanese Hezbollah and Iranian-backed militias were killed in attacks with surface-to-surface missiles fired from Israel, which targeted a weapon and ammunition shipment belonging to the Lebanese Hezbollah and Iranian-backed militias. However, the nationalities of the fatalities remained unknown.
We, at the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, call on the international community once again to work hard to stop the bloodshed in Syria. The people of Syria have been facing tyranny and oppression in their noble endeavour and cause to obtain justice, democracy, freedom and equality.
The Syrian Observatory renew its commitment to continue monitoring and documenting all the developments on the ground in Syria including, the massacres, violations, war crimes and crimes against humanity committed against the Syrian people, as well as publishing all relevant statistics and causalities of such heinous acts, and hope to help all the ongoing efforts of bringing the perpetrators to special international courts, so that they do not escape justice for the crimes they committed against the people of Syria.
