Estimates of the total nr of deaths in the Syrian Civil War are well over half a million people. By Sep '21 UN had documented the verifiable deaths of at least 350,209 "identified individuals" in the conflict between March 2011 and March 2021, but cautioned the figure was "certainly an undercount" - ThreadSky

fulelo.bsky.social • 86 days ago

Estimates of the total nr of deaths in the Syrian Civil War are well over half a million people. By Sep '21 UN had documented the verifiable deaths of at least 350,209 "identified individuals" in the conflict between March 2011 and March 2021, but cautioned the figure was "certainly an undercount"

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fulelo.bsky.social•86 days ago

If you are new to the horrors of the Syrian civil war under Assad, I recommend the books of Samar Yazbek - she has explicit descriptions of what went on in Assad's prisons and torture chambers:
“Blood coursed down their bodies...

fulelo.bsky.social•86 days ago

fresh blood, dried blood, deep wounds carved all over them, like the strokes of an abstract painter.. one of the young men sluggishly tried to lift his head, and I saw his face... He didn’t have a face: his eyes were completely shut. There was a blank space where his nose should be, no lips.”

fulelo.bsky.social•86 days ago

#BBCNews Barbara Plett-Usher reporting from Damascus:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cwy8xzxe0w7t?post=asset%3A469153f2-5eb1-4909-90a7-ecea4c756fa9#post

invertedpyramid.bsky.social•85 days ago

A very good hire by the Beeb. Reminds me of John Simpson in Kabul the night before it fell to western forces way back in 2001. #BBC #Syria

fulelo.bsky.social•85 days ago

On air on the #BBCWorldService radio regarding the situation in #Syria - long thread:
it has been an extraordinary few days and Syria, culminating in the last few hours in the fall of the House of Assad, after more than 50 ys as Islamist led rebel forces entered the capital, Damascus

fulelo.bsky.social•85 days ago

The government of President Bashar al Assad appears to have offered little resistance as have his forces. The Syrian PM in a recorded video message says he has to work on a transition of power. Bashar al Assad and his Baath Party had exerted a brutal rule over Syria,

fulelo.bsky.social•85 days ago

the country has been devastated by civil war since 2011 when he and his acolytes cracked down on mass pro-democracy demonstrations. Millions fled and hundreds of thousands died - were gassed, tortured or shot on his orders.

keithreisman.bsky.social•86 days ago

Never accused by Amnesty International of genocide, so there's that.

whosthedadaist.bsky.social•85 days ago

Probably because the former Syrian government's victims generally "disappeared"

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