REUTERS: More than 40,000 people have been killed in 20 monconflict between Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s forces and those fighting for his overthrow, a violence monitoring group said on Friday.
Rami Abdelrahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said about half the ths of fatalities were civilians and the other half split about evenly between rebels and government soldiers.
“The figure is likely much higher as the rebels and the government lie about how many of their forces have died to make it look like they are winning,” Abdelrahman told Reuters.
The British-based Observatory, which supports the opposition, has been collating the names of the dead since government security forces started shooting pro-democracy protesters in March 2011.. (more)
