More than 300,000 civilians were killed over the first ten years of the Syrian conflict, according to a UN assessment. On the same day, a another UN report said that more than 100 captives had died in a camp in Syria.
The UN Human Rights Office released a report on civilian deaths on Tuesday after conducting a thorough evaluation and statistical analysis of the information that was available.The analysis estimates that between March 1, 2011, and March 31, 2021, the conflict in Syria caused the deaths of 306,887 people.
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, stated that "the conflict-related casualty counts in this report are not simply a set of abstract numbers, but represent particular human people."
Each of these 306,887 people who were killed "would have had a tremendous, resounding impact on the family and community to which they belonged," Bachelet stated.
The number of soldiers and fighters believed to have died in the fighting is thought to be in the tens of thousands; however, they are not included in the UN statistics. Additionally, those who were killed and buried by their families secretly are not included in the figures.The UN Human Rights Council-mandated report reported 143,350 civilian casualties that were each individually verified by a variety of sources with comprehensive information, at the very least their full name, date of death, and place of death. The Damascus Center for Human Rights Studies, the Center for Statistics and Research-Syria, the Syrian Network for Human Rights, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, and the Violations Documentation Center were among the eight information sources used to create the study.
Following the Arab Spring riots in Egypt, Tunisia, Yemen, Libya, and Bahrain that ousted certain national leaders who had been in power for decades, anti-government protests erupted in different parts of Syria in March 2011 and demanded democratic reforms.
Thousands of people were killed and vast portions of the country were damaged as a result of the protests' rapid transformation into a full-fledged civil war.Detention camp deaths
Separately on Tuesday, the UN demanded that nations return their citizens after reporting that more than 100 individuals, including several women, had died in a Syrian camp in just 18 months.Al-Hol, in the region of the northeast controlled by the Kurds, was designed as a transient holding area. It still houses roughly 56,000 individuals, predominantly Syrians and Iraqis, some of whom have ties to the ISIL (ISIS) organization.
According to Imran Riza, the UN resident coordinator in Syria, the Al-Hol camp is becoming more dangerous. It's a pretty tough area, and it's getting riskier all the time, said Riza."Gender-based violence is very prevalent… There are several forbidden zones.
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