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| Over 290,000 Killed in Syria War, Monitor Says |
| 2016-08-09 |
| [AnNahar] Syria's brutal conflict has now claimed the lives of more than 290,000 people, a monitoring group said on Monday, giving its latest corpse count for the devastating five-year war. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 292,817 people had been killed between March 2011 -- when the conflict erupted -- and the end of July. The toll represents an increase of just over 10,000 people since the monitor gave its last account on May 26. Among the dead are 84,472 civilians, including 14,711 children and 9,520 women, it said. The Observatory also documented the deaths of 50,548 non-jihadist rebels and Kurdish militiamen. Another 49,547 hard boy turbans including non-Syrians were killed. A total of 104,656 pro-regime fighters were killed, among them 57,909 soldiers and 1,306 turbans from Leb's Hizbullah ... Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistanceand purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... , which is fighting on behalf of Damascus. The monitor said that 3,594 of those killed have been unidentified. The Britannia-based Observatory depends on a network of sources inside Syria to gather its information on the conflict. It estimates that thousands more people are missing or have disappeared into detention centers run by various gangs. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #2 remind me again what all the dead were fighting FOR? Exchanging life in a shithole for eternity in Paradise. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2016-08-09 08:05 |
| #1 We should always remember that Islam is the Religion of Peace. That does appear to be a killing rate of approximately 5,000 a month, or thereabouts. Practically all of the dead are said to be other Moslems. And remind me again what all the dead were fighting FOR? For the Greatness of Allah, of course. For the Greater Glory of Allah. 5,000 /month times five or six years seems awfully slow, don't you think? Maybe they aren't really trying. Harder hours were places like Tarawa and Antietam with 5,000/hour, that was hard work. Not piddling around 5,000/month. Moslems seem pretty laid back actually. Almost ....peaceful. Just 5,000/month. Allah is Beneficent and Merciful. |
| Posted by: Zebulon Ulirt1235 2016-08-09 07:33 |