Monthly death toll | 393 people, nearly half civilians, killed in March 2023
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented the death of 393 people in March 2023. The fatalities were distributed as follows:
Civilian death toll: 195 persons, including 26 children under the age of 18 and 23 women over the age of 18, and they were as follows:
- Two civilians died under torture in regime prisons.
- 18 civilians, including three women and a child, were killed in infightings and indiscriminate gunfire.
- Two civilians were killed by jihadists.
- Four civilians were killed by opposition factions.
- Six civilians, including four children, were killed in unknown circumstances.
- 59 civilians, including seven women and nine children, were killed in explosions of old ordnance.
- Two civilians were killed in shelling and gunfire by regime forces.
- A man was executed.
- 58 civilians, including 13 women and eight children, were murdered.
- Three children died of poor health conditions.
- 29 civilians were killed by ISIS members.
- Four civilians were killed by Turkish Jandarma.
- Five civilians were killed by landmine and IED explosions.
- A child was shot dead by unidentified persons.
- Two civilians, including a child, were killed by SDF.
Regime forces: 49
ISIS members: 11
Syrian fighters of Islamist factions, rebel factions and other movements and organisations: 21
Syrian members of Popular Committees, the National Defence Forces and regime-backed militias: 59
Jihadists: 1
Syria Democratic Forces (SDF) and affiliated military formations: 12
Iranian-backed Syrian militiamen: 20
Iranian-backed non-Syrian militiamen: 20
Hezbollah: 4
Others: A US citizen (contractor)
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 renews 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.
