{"id":715,"date":"2014-01-01T11:37:27","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T11:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=715"},"modified":"2014-01-01T11:37:27","modified_gmt":"2014-01-01T11:37:27","slug":"more-than-130000-dead-since-syria-conflict-began","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/more-than-130000-dead-since-syria-conflict-began\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 130,000 dead since Syria conflict began"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Syria\"<\/a>More than 130,000 people have been killed since the beginning of the conflict in Syria nearly three years ago, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Tuesday.
\nIn a new tally, the group said 130,433 people have been killed since the conflict began in March 2011, among them 46,266 civilians.
\nThey include more than 7,000 children and more than 4,600 women, the Britain-based watchdog said.
\nThe group said 52,290 pro-government fighters had been killed, among them more than 32,000 regular troops and 262 reinforcements from the Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah.
\nOn the rebel side, the group counted 29,083 deaths, including 6,913 fighters from groups like the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
\nThe Observatory said it had also recorded the deaths of 2,794 unidentified individuals.
\nSyrian activists said a missile struck a bus in a rebel-held area of the northern city of Aleppo, killing at least 10 people.
\nThe observatory said that another missile landed nearby as medics were evacuating the wounded from the first explosion.
\nThe Observatory says the missiles were fired from a plane and that at least two children were among the killed.
\nMeanwhile, insecurity and power cuts have cut Syria\u2019s daily flour output capacity to 3,000 tons from 7,700 tons since its conflict began in 2011, forcing it into costly imports and causing low stockpiles in some provinces, the regime\u2019s prime minister said.
\n\u201cImporting flour places many burdens on the government. It\u2019s not easy to be a flour importer,\u201d Wael Al-Halqi told parliament on Tuesday.
\nHalqi said Syria was importing most of its flour at a cost of $580 per ton to meet daily domestic demand of about 6,110 tons.
\nHe said many of Syria\u2019s 57 flour mills have gone out of operation and face problems \u201cin securing electric power and oil derivatives to run off generators.\u201d
\nOther difficulties included \u201cthe unsafe conditions for transferring wheat to and from the mills and mill workers\u2019 difficulty in reaching their workplaces.\u201d
\nThe beginning of winter has made Syria\u2019s plight even more urgent, prompting the United Nations to begin airlifting food this month into eastern parts of Syria from Iraq.
\n\u201cSometimes the difficulties in securing flour is what leads strategic reserves to reach low levels and vary from one province to another,\u201d Halqi said.<\/p>\n

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