(By The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights)
More than 180000 people have been killed since the beginning of the Syrian Revolution, including more than 70000 died after the massacre of the chemical weapon committed by the regime in Rif Dimashq.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has documented death of 180215 persons since 18/03/2011 which witnessed the fall of the first martyr in Dera’a, and until 20/08/2014.
The casualties are as follows:
Civilians: 89286 civilians, including 9428 children and 6063 women.
Rebel and Islamic fighters: 30481
Defected soldiers and officers: 2363
Arab, European, Asian, American and Australian fighters from the ISIS, al-Nusra Front, Junoud al-Sham battalion, Jund Al-Aqsa battalion, Jund al-Sham Movement and al-Khadra’ battalion: 16855
Regular regime soldiers and officers: 40438
Combatants from Popular Defense Committees, National Defense Forces, al Shabiha, pro-regime informers and the “Syrian resistance to liberate the Sanjak of Alexandretta”: 25927
Pro- regime Shia militiamen from Arab and Asian nationalities, Al Quds Al Felastini Brigade and other pro-regime militiamen from different Arab nationalities: 1854
Fighters from Hezbollah: 561
Unidentified dead people (documented by photos and footages): 2931.
It is worth noting that the numbers do not include more than 20000 detainees in regime prisons and thousands of those who disappeared during regime raids and massacres. It also doesn’t include more than 9,000 regular soldiers and pro-regime militants and hundreds of “regime supporters” captured by IS, Islamic fighters, Al-Nusra front and rebel fighters and hundreds of those kidnapped by pro-regime militants.
The numbers also do not include more than 1500 fighters from the YPG, IS, al-Nusra Front, Islamic battalions and rebel battalions who were kidnapped during clashes between the mentioned sides. These statistics do not include the destiny of 4000 abductees from the civilians and fighters inside IS jails from Shaitaat tribe who were kidnapped by the Islamic State in the province of Deir Ezzor.
We in the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights estimates the real number of non-Syrian casualties from the IS, al-Nusra Front, Islamic factions, Jund Al-Aqsa battalion, Junoud al-Sham, al-Katiba al-Khadra’, Jund al-Sham, rebel battalions, regular forces and pro-regime militants to be approximately 80,000 more than the documented number due to the extreme discretion by all sides on the human losses caused by the conflict and due to the difficulty of communication in Syria.
Despite our loss of hope in an international community capable and willing to put an end to the ongoing atrocities in Syria, we in the Syrian Observatory call upon all sides that claim to defend the freedoms of the people and their rights, to take a serious and responsible stance in order to end the bloodshed in Syria amid the increasing violence and the escalating number of casualties.
We also call upon all sides to support the Syrian people in their aspirations towards freedom, equality and democracy and to exert all effort in guaranteeing that the perpetrators and their wrongdoings will not go unpunished, through the International Criminal Court or through establishing a special court for Syria.
After the failure of referring cases of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Syria to the International criminal court because of the Russian-Chinese veto in the Security Council, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights renews its call to all international sides to establish a special court for Syria. We in the Syrian Observatory demand the punishment of all perpetrators, instigators, collaborators and all individuals and sides who used the Syrian blood as a political card and a means to to carry out their personal agendas, as well as those who transformed a revolution for dignity to a sectarian and ethnic civil war.
The publication of this statistic comes in conjunction with the anniversary of the chemical weapon massacre committed by the Syrian regime in Rif Dimashq where hundreds of people were killed, including a lot of children and women, without referring this file to the International Criminal Court but only destroyed the Syrian regime's arsenal of chemical weapons while more than 70000 people have been killed since this massacre and the continuation of committing dozens of massacres against the Syrian people using all kinds of weapons specially the explosive barrels which kill people more than the chemical weapons do.
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