The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented the death of 171509 people since the beginning of the Syrian revolution on 18th March in 2011 the date of the death of the first person in the Province of Dar’a up till 08/07/2014. The death toll is as following: Civilians: 85020 including 9092 children and 5873 women. Fighters from the rebel battalions: 28525. Defected soldiers: 2354. Arab, European, Asian, American and Australian fighters from the IS, Al-Nusra Front, Junoud Al-Sham battalion, Jund Al-Aqsa battalion, Jund Al-Sham Movement and al-Khadra’ battalion: 15422. Combatants from the People’s Committees loyal to the regime forces, National Defense Forces, Al Ba’ath battalions, Al Shabiha ( pro-regime gunmen), The Syrian Social Nationalist Party and the “Syrian Resistance to Liberate the Sanjak of Alexandretta”: 24655. Pro- regime Shia militiamen from Arab and Asian nationalities, Al Quds Al Felastini Brigade and other pro-regime militiamen from different Arab nationalities: 1603. Fighters from Hezbollah: 509. Unidentified dead people (documented by photos and footages): 2910. It is worth noting that the numbers do not include more than 20000 detainees inside the regime’s jails regime and thousands of those who disappeared during regime raids and massacres. It also doesn’t include more than 7000 regular soldiers and pro-regime militants and 2000 of “regime supporters” captured by the IS, Islamic fighters, Al-Nusra front and rebel fighters. The numbers also do not include more than 1500 fighters from the YPG, ISIS, Al-Nusra Front, Islamic battalions and rebel battalions who were kidnapped during clashes between the mentioned sides. We in the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights have estimated the real number of 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. We in the Syrian Observatory re-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. It is noteworthy that SHOR renewed its refusal on 14th of the last May to provide the International Committee with its statistics about the casualties in Syria because the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights considers that the role of this Committee is to cooperate with the International community to transfer the file of war crimes and crimes against the humanity committed in Syria to competent international courts and not disseminating the numbers of those who died in Syria depending on Syrian parties whether they are oppositions or supporters to the regime, where the International Committee has disseminated statistics offered by these parties without checking the credibility of such numbers. In addition to, the role of this Committee is not to disseminate reports without documenting and reaching to right conclusions which could be relied on by the judicial organizations and international political which are able to activate the mechanism of International criminal prosecution.
Posted on: Sat, 12 Jul 2014 05:17:35 +0000
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