Calculating a death toll for Syria is no easy task, with the UN having long since given up on the task and the Syrian state media no longer reporting even a fraction of the fighting ongoing. The Syrian Network for Human Rights is still trying, however.
And the interesting thing from their tolls is that near as they can figure deaths have actually slowed down from their peak in August, with September and October more or less flat. This reflects a decrease in deaths reported in Aleppo Province.
Which may be surprising, since neither side ever won and Aleppo is still hotly contested. But after fighting for the city began in earnest, it quickly stalemated and despite a lot of fire being traded, the death tolls aren’t nearly what they were when both sides thought victory was imminent.
Another figure from the report is likely even more controversial, claiming that more Syrian soldiers have died in the fighting than rebels in the past month. Since some rebel factions regularly fold their own deaths into the “civilian” toll, this may be the toughest number of all to reliably figure.
It is noteworthy that among the reported rebel deaths, only a small portion are actually military defectors fighting for the Free Syrian Army (FSA), which may suggest the rebellion is more made up of irregulars than previously acknowledged.
Syrian state media had a daily very long reporting of any fighting going on in Syria. They even did open a new website for these daily reports.
On https://twitter.com/SANA_English you even get a dozen of news per hour !!
I also posted often the link here for antiwar "LINK SUBMISSION" – but it has been ignored regularly, so I stopped sending it.
This tactic is simple and effective: First censor it, then claim, it does not exist.
And one is to believe the "Syrian" Network for Human Rights. They have been the mouthpiece of a virtual "resistance", that is, the rebellion West would LIKE to have, as opposed to the one on hand. The group is notorious for ignoring the crimes by the militants against the civilians in order to terrorize them into supporting their cause.
And now, Alleppo, the place west would love to convert into their Behghazi, the city to "protect" from the "bad" army. But the population there was always loyal to the Government, and are now protesting presence of militias in their town. Too bad, they are not going to make it to CNN. Instead, they can be killed for the glorious cause.
The problem is, how to reconcile the "Free Syrian Army" that is neither Free nor Syrian, with Salafists, those home grown as well as those from Iraq.
Good luck to the revolution manufacturers. Is this a foreign policy, or some egos gone mad?