The armed conflict in Syria killed around 306,887 civilians from March 1st to  March 31st, 2021.

The number does not include those who died due to the lack of medical attention, livelihood and other basic human rights.

The report issued by the UN Human Rights Office states that “the extent of civilian casualties in the last 10 years represents a staggering 1.5 percent of the total population of the Syrian Arab Republic at the beginning of the conflict, raising serious concerns as to the failure of the parties to the conflict to respect international humanitarian law norms on the protection of civilians.”

8 sources of information, covering ten years, were used to compile the report.

“The conflict-related casualty figures in this report are not simply a set of abstract numbers, but represent individual human beings. The impact of the killing of each of these 306,887 civilians would have had a profound, reverberating impact on the family and community to which they belonged,” UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said.

“There is a 95 percent chance that the true number of civilian deaths is between 281,443 and 337,971,” the UN Human Rights Office said on Tuesday.

Unrest in Syria began on 15 March 2011 as part of the wider 2011 Arab Spring protests.

The Syrian civil war is an ongoing multi-sided civil war.

 

UN Human Rights Office.