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More than 528,500 people have been killed in the conflict in Syria since 2011, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported yesterday.
According to the rights group, the death of thousands of people was confirmed after the regime was ousted and detention centres, prisons and mass graves were discovered and opened.
More than 6,700 people, more than half of them civilians, were killed in Syria in 2024 alone, according to SOHR. Of the 3,598 civilians killed, 240 were women and 337 were children.
Since 2011, the group has documented more than 64,000 deaths in regime detention centres “under torture, medical neglect and poor living conditions”.
In 2023, SOHR reported the deaths of more than 4,360 people, including about 1,900 civilians.
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