Syria's monthly death toll: 5,000, groups say

Subject: Syria's monthly death toll: 5,000, groups say Sun Sep 02, 2012 11:37 pm

Activist groups said yesterday that about 5,000 people were killed in Syria's civil war in August, the highest monthly figure ever reported in nearly a year and a half of fighting as President Bashar Assad's regime unleashed crushing air power against the revolt for the first time.

UNICEF, the UN children's fund, put the death toll for last week alone at 1,600, the largest weekly figure to date.

"The past month witnessed large massacres, and the regime was conducting wide operations to try to crush the uprising," said Omar Idilbi, a Cairo-based activist with the Local Coordination Committees. "Last month's acts of violence were unprecedented."

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Syria's monthly death toll: 5,000, groups say

Syria's monthly death toll: 5,000, groups say

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