Number of fully documented casualties over 15 thousand, 06-06-2012
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The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) and Damascus Centre for Human Rights Studies (DCHRS) observe rigorous documentation standards to verify each piece of information by seeking testimonies from two people who do not know one another before it is included in the casualties’ record.
Please be advised to look at the attached file which is a comprehensive report of all the recorded civilian and military casualties including all the details available for each. The report at the first pages features diagrams plotting the distribution of casualties on Syrian governorates.
The comprehensive PDF file of the victims of the Syrian Revolution can be downloaded from this link. This PDF file contains all the details, including photos, videos, and full names.
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Syrian citizens killed by the Syrian regime between 18-03-2011 and 16-06-2012
Confirmed death toll documented by name: 15163
Children: 1114
Women: 957
Killed under torture: 579
Military personnel: 1210 of the Free Syrian Army, pro-regime military and security forces as well as defectors or soldiers who refused to shoot and whom SNHR & DCHRS were able to document their names and death using the military or security IDs which they had when they were killed. It is worth mentioning that Syrian authorities have not allowed SNHR & DCHRS members to verify the names of the victims declared by the Syrian authorities as SNHR members have no relations whatsoever with the Syrian authorities, security apparatus and media outlets responsible for the figures and information released by the Syrian authorities and which cannot be verified at the moment.
Distribution of casualties on Syrian governorates is available in and documented by the attached file and can be verified by referring to this file:
Homs: 5422
Idleb: 2385
Hama: 2062
Daraa: 1539
Rural Damascus: 1522
Deir Ezzor: 601
Aleppo: 554
Latakia: 404
Damascus: 280
Al-Hasakah: 100
Tartous: 70
Raqqa: 68
Qunaitera: 55
Swuaida: 14
Other Nationals: 79
The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) and Damascus Centre for Human Rights Studies (DCHRS) hold Bashar al-Assad, head of the state and Commander-in-Chief of the Syrian regime army, accountable for all acts of homicide, torture and massacres perpetrated in Syria as he holds the primary responsibility for issuing the orders for those acts. All members of the Syrian regime and heads of security and military apparatus are considered directly complicit in those acts as well as all those involved in funding and supporting this regime which continues to perpetrate massacres against civilians on a daily basis. All such parties shall be responsible for any public reactions and consequences and implications thereof.
SNHR and DCHRS call on the UN and the UN Security Council to quickly take all necessary measures to protect civilians and fulfil their legal and moral responsibilities by accelerating the referral of all those responsible for the perpetration of these massacres to the International Criminal Court (ICC).