The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

More than 115 thousand killed in Syria

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More than 115 thousand killed in Syria

The SOHR has documented 115,206 casualties since the beginning of the uprisings in 18/3/2011, from the first casualty in Dera’a, up till 30/09/2013.

Civilians: 40,146. Including 6,087 children and 4,079 women.

Rebel fighters: 17,071

Defected soldiers and officers: 2,176


Regular soldiers and officers: 28,804

Unidentified casualties (documented by pictures and footages): 2,760

Unidentified and foreign rebel fighters (mostly the latter): 4.460

Popular defence committees, National defence forces, Shabiha and pro-regime informers: 18,228

Fighters from the Lebanese Hezbollah: 174

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The death toll does not include more than 10,000 detainees and missing persons inside regime prisons.

Nor does it include more than 3,00 regular soldiers and officers held captives by rebel fighters.

We also estimate the real number of casualties from regular forces and rebel fighters to be twice the number documented, because both sides are discreet about the human losses caused by clashes.

It is worth mentioning that the SOHR has refrained in the past days from cooperating and supplying some international bodies with our figures. this decision was taken because of their continued use of these figures without doing further investigation of these war crimes. We want these crimes to be verified from international bodies and taken to the International Criminal Court so as all oppressors of the Syrian people face justice.

Given this massive number of casualties and these tragic human losses, who are not solely numbers but are lives horribly lost. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights calls upon the UN security-general Mr. Ban Ki Moon and the international community to exert all effort on ending the ongoing violence in Syria, to increase humanitarian assistance and to work on a political solution for a future democratic, civil, just and equal country and to maintain the rights of all Syrian components.