The regime's General Organization of Forensic Medicine declared that it recorded 116 suicides since the beginning of this year, confirming that the numbers exceeded last year’s number, where Syria recorded 124 cases.
The state-run Al-Watan newspaper quoted the commission’s director general, Zahir Hajjo, as saying that Aleppo topped the number of suicides with 23 cases, followed by the provinces of Damascus and Latakia with 18 cases each, then Damascus and Homs with 14 cases, Hama 10 cases, and Sweida 9 cases, Tartus has 7 cases, Daraa two cases, and Quneitra with 1 suicide.
Hajjo added that the number of male suicide was 86, while the number of females reached 30, indicating that the suicide cases included 18 minors, 11 of whom were males and 7 females.
He pointed out that the number of suicides by hanging came first, as the number of suicide by hanging reached 47, then 27 people by gunshot, and 18 cases of falling from a height.
Hajjo claimed that "the rest of the cases varied in the methods of suicide, such as poisoning and others, and one case in Homs, was when a person slaughtered himself, and he was mentally ill person.”
Syrian psychologists say the war and the economic crisis are the main reasons behind the mount in suicide cases.
According to the New York Times, an estimated 80 percent of Syrians live in poverty. About 40 percent were unemployed at the end of 2019.
The war has throttled Syria’s economy, reducing it to a third the size it was before the war and taking a toll thought to be in the hundreds of billions of dollars.
Zaman Al Wasl
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