Worrying escalation | 50 murders documented in regime-controlled areas in 2023

Regime-held areas have experienced an alarming escalation of crime rates, where domestic violence and armed robbery were behind most of the murders documented in those areas, while motivations behind others remained unknown. On the other hand, the regime security services have failed so far to put an end to the state of disorder and rampant security chaos in all Syrian provinces.

 

The Syrian Observatory has monitored and tracked the cause of the worrying escalation of crime rate in 2023, documenting 48 murders, These murder crimes left 50 fatalities: 13 women, 31 young and adult men and six children. The fatalities are distributed regionally as follows:

 

• Al-Suwaidaa: Nine murder crimes left a child, six men and two women dead.

 

• Rif Dimashq: Eight murder crimes left a woman, seven men and a child dead.

 

• Latakia: Seven murder crimes left three men, four women and a child dead.

 

• Daraa: Six murder crimes left five men and a woman dead.

 

• Damascus: Five murder crimes left a woman, a child and three men dead.

 

• Homs: Four murder crimes left a man, a woman, a young man and a child dead

 

• Aleppo: Three murder crimes left a child and two women dead.

 

• Hama: Two murder crimes left two men dead.

 

• Deir Ezzor: Two murders crime left two young men dead.

 

• Al-Hasakah: One murder crimes left a woman dead.

 

• Al-Qunaitrah: One murder crime left one young man dead.

 

In 2022, the Syrian Observatory documented 159 murders in regime-controlled areas, where domestic violence and armed robbery were behind some of these murders, while motivations behind the others remained unknown. These murders left 174 civilians: 32 children, 30 women, and 112 young and adult men, dead. The fatalities are distributed regionally as follows:

 

• Al-Suwaydaa: 34 civilians: four children, including an infant, three women, and 27 men.

 

• Rif Dimashq: 33 civilians: six children, eight women, and 19 men, including an Iraqi man.

 

• Homs: 26 civilians: two little girls, four women, and 20 men.

 

• Hama: 18 civilians: an infant, two children, four women, and 11 men.

 

• Daraa: 13 civilians: six children, six men and a woman.

 

• Deir Ezzor: 11 people: seven men, a child, and three women.

 

• Aleppo: Eight civilians: an infant and seven men.

 

• Tartus: 11 civilians: four women, four men, and three children.

 

• Damascus: Eight civilians: a woman, six men and a child.

 

• Latakia: Eight civilians: two women, four children, and two men.

 

• Al-Raqqah: Two men.

 

• Idlib: A man.

 

• Al-Quneitra: A child.