Death toll of Syrian war records lowest tally in 2021

QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) – The 11-year-war in Syria killed 3,746 people during 2021, fewer than the toll of 2020, which considered the lowest death toll.

This figure, despite the magnitude of its number, is the lowest since the outbreak of the conflict more than ten years ago, according to a figure published by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), on Wednesday.

Since 2011, the conflict in Syria has killed more than half a million people, as well as displaced and refuged more than half of the population.

According to figures compiled by SOHR, 1,505 of them were civilians including 360 children.

About 297 people were killed in 2021 by landmines and various explosive remnants, SOHR noted.

Syria recorded the largest number of mine victims during 2020, ahead of Afghanistan, according to the annual report of the Landmine Monitor.

In 2014, 70,000 people were killed, the highest annual death toll in Syria’s war, according to SOHR.

Observers believe that the real numbers of dead, wounded and missing in Syria are greater than the officially announced numbers, in addition to the horrific number of victims leaked by WikiLeaks and Caesar in the prisons of the Syrian government.

The true number of dead, wounded, war-wounded and detainees will be revealed to the public after the war is over, according to activists.