Escalating crime rate | Nearly 250 people, including children and women, killed across Syria since early 2024
SOHR renews its appeal to the international community to intensify its efforts to end the Syrian people’s suffering
Crimes rate continues to increase in all zones of influence throughout Syria with regime-controlled areas topping the list. Meanwhile, regime security forces have failed so far to control the security situation or prosecute the perpetrators of many murder crimes.
The dramatic escalation of murder crimes is attributed to the deteriorating living condition, proliferation of arms, absence of laws controlling the possession of weapons by civilians, retaliation and personal disagreements.
Since early 2024, SOHR sources have documented the death of 247 people, including children and women, in murder crimes in all zones of influence across Syria. A monthly breakdown of fatalities is as follows:
- January: 29 fatalities, including four children and five women.
- February: 26 fatalities, including five women.
- March: 44 fatalities, including two children and six women.
- April: 26 fatalities, including four women and a child.
- May: 18 fatalities, including a child and a woman.
- June: 36 fatalities, including nine women.
- July: 33 fatalities, including four children and eight women.
- August: 35 fatalities, including eight women.
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.