More than 80,000 killed in Syria conflict: NGO (2 Viewers)

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More than 80,000 people have been killed in Syria's conflict since it erupted more than two years ago, a monitoring group said on Sunday.

Nearly half of those who have died were civilians, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The Britain-based watchdog said it has documented the killing of around 82,257 people, including 34,473 civilians -- among them 4,788 children and 3,049 women.

It has also recorded the deaths of 16,687 rebels, including defected military personnel.

The Observatory said 16,729 soldiers and more than 12,000 shabiha (pro-regime militia) and regime informants have also been killed.

The bodies of another 2,368 people were found across Syria, it added.

The conflict started out in March 2013 as a peaceful uprising against President Bashar al-Assad but spiralled into a civil war after the army unleashed a brutal crackdown against dissent.

Some 1.4 million people have fled the country and 4.2 other Syrians have become internally displaced, the UN says.

The Observatory says its toll does not include more than 10,000 people missing in detention in regime jails, or some 2,500 pro-regime prisoners kept in rebel hands.

In Saturday's violence alone, at least 86 people were killed across Syria, the Observatory said, listing them as 23 civilians, 40 rebels and 23 soldiers.

http://www.hindustantimes.com/world...d-in-Syria-conflict-NGO/Article1-1059118.aspx

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[SylviaB]

Look at these wonderful progressive freedom fighters!

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[Lolsmith]

Look at these wonderful progressive freedom fighters!

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/05/15/303567/cannibal-terrorist-says-video-is-real/

yeah but mate

http://racanarchy.com/2013/05/15/10-things-worse-than-eating-a-dead-mans-heart/

 

[SylviaB]

The syrian government is bad but if it is violently overthrown and a government is haphazardly formed in the aftermath of the chaos by a bunch of lunatics things will magically be better

history shows us this

 

[isildurrrr1]

The syrian government is bad but if it is violently overthrown and a government is haphazardly formed in the aftermath of the chaos by a bunch of lunatics things will magically be better

history shows us this

Why do you think no one's intervening? No one wants syria to become a hotbed for extremists. The hardline islamists are gaining a lot of ground because 1. they have money 2. they have a very globalized network.

Same fucked up shit has happened in Libya, killing POWs, executing people, beheading soldiers etc. Civil wars are a dirty dirty conflict, it's brothers against brothers, fathers against sons. Shit that the christian serbs did in bosnia was pretty fucked up too.

Assad is like saddam, hes the only major power that's trying to keep secularism in his country instead of having islamic nutjobs trying to run it.

 

[Garygaz]

yeah but mate

http://racanarchy.com/2013/05/15/10-things-worse-than-eating-a-dead-mans-heart/

religion of peace

 

[Azure]

Why do you think no one's intervening? No one wants syria to become a hotbed for extremists. The hardline islamists are gaining a lot of ground because 1. they have money 2. they have a very globalized network.

Same fucked up shit has happened in Libya, killing POWs, executing people, beheading soldiers etc. Civil wars are a dirty dirty conflict, it's brothers against brothers, fathers against sons. Shit that the christian serbs did in bosnia was pretty fucked up too.

Assad is like saddam, hes the only major power that's trying to keep secularism in his country instead of having islamic nutjobs trying to run it.

Syria has long been a hotbed for nutjobs. The most glaringly obvious example is the unequivocal support it gives to Hezbollah.

 

[isildurrrr1]

I'd rather keep syria the way it is than let it become an insurgents wetdream like afghanistan. The Syrian and Iranian state has always given support to Hezbollah, it's to keep the populace busy from real problems like poverty, starvation, lack of basic needs and blame it all on the jews, rather than letting things lead into sectarian violence like iraq.

tldr fuck both sides.

 

[funkshen]

Syria has long been a hotbed for nutjobs. The most glaringly obvious example is the unequivocal support it gives to Hezbollah.

that is not evidence of nutjobbery at all. hezbollah is a shi'a organisation. the assad regime is a shi'a regime. hezbollah has been one of the most important means by which syria has maintained its influence and control over lebanon. if anything this demonstrates the efficacy of the assad regime.

 

[isildurrrr1]

that is not evidence of nutjobbery at all. hezbollah is a shi'a organisation. the assad regime is a shi'a regime. hezbollah has been one of the most important means by which syria has maintained its influence and control over lebanon. if anything this demonstrates the efficacy of the assad regime.

They're all just playing the game. When Saddam was toppled there was a huge influx of shia militants from syria and iran. US decided it was in their best interest to support suuni and kurdish insurgents. good job on toppling a secular dictatorship though.