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Syria uprising leaves 5,000 dead in January

Rights group report of second-most lethal month since civil war began; Assad's steadfast allies approach rebel leaders, seek compromise

Nearly 5,000 people were killed in Syria in January, making it the second most lethal month since the uprising against President Bashar Assad began in March 2011.

 

According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), cited by the Guardian on Sunday night, 4,851 people were killed in January in Syria, second only to August, when the civil war is believed to have claimed 4,933-5,440 lives.

 

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SOHR director Rami Abdul Rahman said that his men documented 1,030 casualties among security forces and 3,305 casualties among civilians and rebel forces.

 

Video: Reuters    (צילום: רויטרס)

Video: Reuters

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The organization estimates that since the uprising began in March 2011, some 16,751 people were killed, 3,717 of them children.

 

This is a much more conservative assessment than the UN's, which stands at 60,000.

 


אח נושא את אחותו לאחר הפצצה בחלב (צילום: AP)

Brother carries sister after Aleppo bombing (Photo: AP)

 

The SOHR reported Sunday that Assad's forces bombed the Ansari neighborhood in Aleppo, killing 11 people, including five children.

 

Another organization reported 15 killed in the bombing. A video posted online shows a devastated building and dozens of people digging in the ruins in search of survivors.    

 


ילדה שנהרגה בהפצצה בחלב (צילום: AP)

A child killed in Aleppo bombing (Photo: AP)

  

"That man's family is still buried under there," a man can be heard saying in the video.

Bombings in Idlib and Aleppo    (צילום: רויטרס)

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Against the backdrop of the high casualty rates as well as the increasing distress of the Syrian refugees, the possibility of a diplomatic breakthrough has raised its head.  

 


מורד שנפגע מאש צלפים בדמשק (צילום: רויטרס)

Rebel hit by snipers in Damascus (Photo: Reuters)

 

Russia, one of Assad's most steadfast allies, has sent its foreign minister Sergey Lavrov to meet Syrian opposition leader Moaz al-Khatib on the weekend.

 

The meeting, which took place on the sideline of the Munich Security Conference, marked the first time the two officials met since al-Khatib was appointed for office in late 2012.

 

Concurrently, a diplomatic source revealed that al-Khatib also met with Iran's Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi, even though Tehran is also at Assad's side.

 

 

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