From Goran: "According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights
more than 180,000 have been killed so far in the Syrian conflict. It further claims that 89,286 of these victims were civilians.
A careful reading of the observatory’s statistics, however, reveals that this number includes 30,481 “civilian” combatants, whatever that is supposed to mean. So “only” 58,805 of the dead were actually non-combatants, of which 6,063 were women and 9,428 children.
If this is true more than 67% of the fatalities in the Syrian conflict have been combatants and about 91% have been adult men. I’m sure that the BBC
NY Times, and Commentary will soon run stories about this striking revelation. Whatever one feels about the Syrian conflict and its warring parties one can hardly accuse them of “indiscriminate” killings. This is clearly demonstrated by the extraordinary low proportion of woman and children among their victims. Much lower in fact than in Israel’s assault on Gaza."
more than 180,000 have been killed so far in the Syrian conflict. It further claims that 89,286 of these victims were civilians.
A careful reading of the observatory’s statistics, however, reveals that this number includes 30,481 “civilian” combatants, whatever that is supposed to mean. So “only” 58,805 of the dead were actually non-combatants, of which 6,063 were women and 9,428 children.
If this is true more than 67% of the fatalities in the Syrian conflict have been combatants and about 91% have been adult men. I’m sure that the BBC
NY Times, and Commentary will soon run stories about this striking revelation. Whatever one feels about the Syrian conflict and its warring parties one can hardly accuse them of “indiscriminate” killings. This is clearly demonstrated by the extraordinary low proportion of woman and children among their victims. Much lower in fact than in Israel’s assault on Gaza."
