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It might be the best evidence children in Syria haven't just the casualties of the country's
civil war.
They're the targets. (Via YouTube / تنسيقية كفربطنا)
A new report from London-based Oxford Research Group finds more than 11,000 children have
been killed in the fighting — and that number is mounting.
While most were killed in explosions, 764 were summarily executed and 389 died from
sniper attacks. (Via Wikimedia Commons / Voice of America News)
Most of the victims were boys between the ages of 13 -17 killed in their own neighborhoods.
(Via Amnesty International)
The report echoes similar findings by the United Nations back in June... as well as
from aid workers and doctors inside Syria who say both children and pregnant women are
targets.
"Many children are dying on the operating table because you just were a little bit to
late... It was very painful." ( Via ITV)
Observers have likened it to a game among the snipers of who can kill the most. But
why target children, specifically?
SAVE THE CHILDREN LEBANON: "Children are targeted because it destroys a community. It destroys
a family. When you know your child has been tortured, has been brutalized, you lose the
will. You lose the will to live." (Via BBC)
Since the civil war began two-and-a-half years ago, an estimated two million Syrians have
fled their country — about a tenth of the country's population.