More than 80,000 killed in Syria conflict: NGO

AFP , Sunday 12 May 2013

More than 80,000 people have been killed in Syria's conflict since it erupted in March 2011, Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said

More than 80,000 people have been killed in Syria's conflict since it erupted more than two years ago, a monitoring group said on Sunday.

Nearly half of those who died were civilians, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

The conflict started out in March 2013 as a peaceful uprising against President Bashar al-Assad but spiralled into a civil war after the army unleashed a brutal crackdown against dissent.

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