Most dead as a result of torture or poor humanitarian conditions, says Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. More than 60,000 people have been killed through torture or died in dire humanitarian conditions inside Syrian government prisons throughout the country's five-year uprising, according to a monitor.
The numbers were obtained from Syrian government sources, the United Kingdom-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Saturday.
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"Since March 2011, at least 60,000 people lost their lives to torture or to horrible conditions, notably the lack of medication or food, in regime prisons," said the Observatory's Rami Abdel Rahman.
These dictatorships are what happens when people are seen as numbers or a tool to abuse and keep under ones thumb. We really need to get a handle on Syria before more lives are lost in a senseless war.
