A war monitor: Almost 388,000 were killed in Syria’s war

A war monitor reported on Sunday that the total death number for Syria’s civil war has reached 388,652 since its starting for a decade ago. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights stated that the numbers comprises almost 117,388 civilians, among them more than 22,000 children.

Moreover, the Britain-based monitor that relies on its reports on sources inside Syria said that assaults by the Syrian regime and allied militia forces accounted for the majority of civilian deaths. The Observatory’s previous toll published in December and recorded more than 387,000.

Besides, AFP reported that Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman stated that in the year of 2020; there was the lowest annual death total since the start of the war with just over 10,000 deaths.

This year, conflicts was decelerated as a cease-fire held in northwestern Syria and there is more attention on how contain the coronavirus pandemic.

According to the Observatory, at least 16,000 deaths in government prisons and detention centers since the start of the conflict in 2011 after the inhuman repression of anti-regime protests. It also stated that the real number was likely higher because its total does not comprise 88,000 people considered as died due to torture in regime prisons.

Currently, the Syrian regime takes the control of more than 60 percent of the country after a series of Russia-backed victories against opposition since 2015. But, there are some regions that the regime couldn’t control it, is about the last opposition enclave of Idlib in the northwest, Turkish-held areas along the northern border, and northeastern parts of the country controlled by US-backed Kurdish forces.

According to the war monitor, the war has forced more than half the country’s pre-war population to escape from their homes, and some 200,000 people have been missing.