Highest monthly death toll in 15 months | 407 people killed across Syria in April 2023
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented the death of 407 people in March 2023. The fatalities were distributed as follows:
Civilian death toll: 210 persons, including 21 children under the age of 18 and nine women over the age of 18, and they were as follows:
- One civilian died under torture in regime prisons.
- 30 civilians, including four children, were killed in infightings and indiscriminate gunfire.
- Three civilians, including a woman, were killed by opposition factions.
- Five civilians, including a child, were killed in unknown circumstances.
- 67 civilians, including four women and ten children, were killed in explosions of old ordnance.
- Four civilians, including a woman and a child, were killed in bombardment and gunfire by regime forces.
- Three civilians were executed.
- 39 civilians, including three women and four children, were murdered.
- Two civilians died under torture in rebel prisons.
- 50 civilians were killed by ISIS members.
- One civilian was killed by landmine and IED explosions.
- Three civilians were shot dead by unidentified persons.
- Two civilians, including a child, were killed by SDF.
Regime forces: 75
ISIS members: 7
Syrian fighters of Islamist factions, rebel factions and other movements and organisations: 19
Syrian members of Popular Committees, the National Defence Forces and regime-backed militias: 55
Jihadists: 2
Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and affiliated military formations: 15
SDF-backed non-Syrian fighters: 1
Kurdish Units: 2
Iranian-backed Syrian militiamen: 15
Iranian-backed non-Syrian militiamen: 1
Hezbollah: 3
Turkish soldiers: 2
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.
