Study: More Than 11,000 Children Killed in Syrian War

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Source: CBS News

Study: More than 11,000 children killed in Syrian war

CBS NEWS
November 24, 2013, 10:37 PM ET

Syria's bloody civil war has claimed the lives of more than 11,000 children, the vast majority killed by bombs or shells in their own neighborhoods, according to a report released Sunday.

The report, Stolen Futures: The Hidden Toll of Child Casualties in Syria, was released by the Oxford Research Group, an independent think tank based in Britain. It used figures provided by Syrian civil society groups that have been recording casualties.

The study found that from the start of the conflict in March 2011 through the month of August 2013, a total of 11,420 children age 17 or under had been killed, out of 113,735 civilians and combatants.

Of the child deaths, boys outnumbered girls more than 2 to 1 overall. The highest number of child deaths occurred in the governorate of Aleppo, where 2,223 were reported killed.

"What is most disturbing about the findings of this report is not only the sheer numbers of children killed in this conflict, but the way they are being killed," said co-author Hana Salama. "Bombed in their homes, in their communities, during day-to-day activities such as waiting in bread lines or attending school; shot by bullets in crossfire, targeted by snipers, summarily executed, even gassed and tortured."

Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/study-more-than-11000-children-killed-in-syrian-war

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1. And we can't even talk about it

Because Syria has become too hot a potato to discuss (even here on DU).

[ucrdem]

2. So much for soft power.

And the miracle of social media.

[Sand Wind]

3. They were baby-terrorist...

...who tried to kill unarmed pilgrims from Lebanon.

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4. Twice the # of boys as girls?

Is there some horrible skew, where boys go and stand in bread lines or schools but girls stay in bunkers?

"Bombed in their homes" should come out about even.

Perhaps snipers might pick off boys more than girls. Gassing is unisex.

Strikes me as suspicious--"boy" is 17 or younger. In other words, minors in the West. Lots of adolescent minors go off to fight. That would make them perhaps "boys" but also combatant minors.

[Sand Wind]

5. same as Bosni, they kill all the boys and men when they enter in a house. nt.