Syria: Death toll reaches 1620,000

Is anybody paying attention?  From The Asian Age:

May 20, 2014 |

‘Syria toll reaches 162,000’

At least 162,000 people have been killed in Syria’s three-year-old conflict, a monitoring group said on Monday, and thousands more are missing after being captured by President Bashar al-Assad’s forces and rebels trying to overthrow him.

The pro-Opposition, British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said losses among fighters on the government side were higher than those among pro-rebel groups, and estimated that at least 54,000 civilians had been killed since the conflict began.

It estimated 62,800 deaths among the Army, pro-Assad Syrian militia, Lebanese Hezbollah fighters and other foreign Shia gunmen.

That compared with 42,700 people who had died on the rebel side, including fighters from Al Qaeda’s Nusra Front, other Islamist brigades, and soldiers who defected from Assad’s Army.

Nearly 3,000 people of unknown identity or affiliation had been killed, it said.  ...

 And these are just the deaths we know about.  The world has moved on.  Read more here.