More than 13,000 people have been killed in Syria since an anti-regime revolt broke out in March 2011, Rami Abdel Rahman of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights told AFP on May 27.
“In total, 13,004 people were killed,” Abdel Rahman said, adding that 9,183 of them were civilians.
Another 3,072 were regime troops and 749 were army defectors, he added, noting that civilians who had taken up arms during the increasingly militarized revolt were being counted under the category of “civilians.”
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The violence has been relentless despite an April 12 ceasefire brokered by UN-Arab League peace envoy Kofi Annan.
“Since the ceasefire came into effect, 1,881 people have been killed,” said Abdel Rahman, referring to clashes between rebels and regime troops, repression by government forces and bomb attacks.
The Observatory’s latest figures were published a day after at least 92 people, a third of them children, were killed in Houla, a town in the central province of Homs.
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Abdel Rahman said the international community had to “react” to the burgeoning violence and said the UN observer mission deployed under Annan’s peace plan had arrived too late at Houla despite being warned of the violence.
“Why didn’t the UN observers go to the site as soon as the attack was announced?” he asked. “If the world does not react after the Houla massacre, that would be a catastrophe.”
(AFP)
自二○一一年三月敘利亞爆發反阿塞德總統政權動亂以來，已有超過一萬三千人被殺害，敘利亞人權瞭望台的拉曼五月二十七日對法新社指出。
「總共有一萬三千零四人被殺。」拉曼說，他補充，當中九千一百八十三人是平民。
他補充提到，另外三千零七十二人是當局部隊，七百四十九人是倒戈軍人。在武裝反叛日盛之際，拿起武器戰鬥的百姓被算在「平民」的範疇。
儘管聯合國與阿拉伯聯盟和平特使安南促成四月十二日的停火，然而暴力衝突卻不間斷。
「自停火生效以來，已有一八八一人喪生。」拉曼說，他提到反抗軍與阿塞德政權部隊間的衝突、政府軍的鎮壓與炸彈攻擊。
人權瞭望台是在發生至少九十二名胡拉鎮民遭殺害，其中三分之一為兒童的次日，公佈這份最新數據，胡拉是中部省分荷姆斯的一個鎮。
拉曼說，國際社群必須對方興未艾的暴力「做出反應」，他並表示，安南和平計畫下派駐的聯合國觀察團儘管獲得這起暴力的警告，卻太慢抵達胡拉。
「為什麼聯合國觀察員沒有在攻擊被通報後就前往該處？」他質問。「如果世界對胡拉屠殺毫無反應，將是大災難。」
（法新社/翻譯：魏國金）
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