Catholic Online: Of all people killed in the civil war, 85 percent of them, 39,520 human lives died in 2012. According to the opposition Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, 6,548 men, women and children lost their lives in 2011, representing 14 percent of the total 46,068 deaths. Read more here.
AsiaNews update: I am posting this three hours after I posted the above.
More than 60 thousand people have been killed in Syria since March 2011 – which initially began as part of the Arab spring – until the civil war of today. The figures have been provided by the UN Human Rights Commission, which released a study carried out by the Benetech research center that shows that up until November 2012, there were 59,648 deaths in Syria. Read more here.
