AMMAN/GENEVE (Reuters) - The conflict in Syria has already claimed more than 60,000 deaths, said Wednesday the United Nations, while violence, particularly in Damascus kill dozens of each additional victims jour.
Wednesday, mid-day, it is a government air raid on a suburb of Damascus, which transformed a huge service station blaze that killed thirty motorists trapped by flames, witnesses .
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay has put the figure of 59,648 killed in Syria between March 15, 2011, the start of the uprising against the regime of Bashar al-Assad, November 30, 2012.< / p>
This assessment is the result of five months of analysis of data from seven different sources, she précisé.
"The number of victims is much higher than what we expected and is really shocking," said Navi Pillay. "Given that the conflict has not decreased in intensity since the end of November, we can assume that in early 2013, more than 60,000 people were killed."
She showed no breakdown of victims between rebel and loyalist soldiers civilians, nor in terms of the origin confessionnelle.
This assessment is anyway much higher than the previous estimations.
The Syrian Observatory of Human Rights (OSDH), a structure of the opposition, was to present state of 45,000 confirmed deaths but stressed that the real death toll is probably much élevé.
After nearly 22 months of uprising, initially largely peaceful and with weapons, Bashar al-Assad seems to gradually lose ground. It still controls the center of Damascus, but the rebels and their supporters are located in many suburbs on the outskirts of the capital forming an arc to the east and south of the ville.
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Mouleïha, residential and industrial locality covered by the aerial bombardment of Wednesday, and is located in the Ghouta, a suburb of Damascus where there is also an air base régime.
According to opponents, this rockets targeted the base station and a nearby residential area after the bombing aérien.
"Until the raid, Mouleïha was quiet. We were running out of gasoline for four days and the inhabitants of the town and the surrounding countryside rushed to the station delivery governmental When it arrived," said Abu Fouad, an opponent on the spot, told téléphone.
The OSDH reported another air strike had killed 12 members of a family, for most children, Moadamieh, a suburb southwest of Damascus where trying to install the rebellion .
information from Syria are almost impossible to verify with sources indépendantes.
rebels control large areas in the north and east by Syria and on the outskirts of Damascus, but progress is hampered by the mastery of the air retained by the régime.
According to the OSDH, insurgents, some from Islamist movements, attacked the military airfield near Afis Taftanaz base in the north of the country. They fired machine guns and mortars towards helicopter sol.
fighters of al Nousra Front, brigade Ahrar al-Sham and other units in Idlib province attacked the base itself, not far from the main highway linking the country to Damascus Aleppo city populated in Syria nord.
Syrian official media have not mentioned the fighting or air strikes reported Damas.
According to opponentslives on site, the regime's forces also shelled with artillery the various suburbs of the capital, Douma, Harasta, and Irbine Zamlaka, where rebels are présents.
Both sides accuse each other of atrocities .
The last witnessdated arose on the internet through a video broadcast by the rebels. On these images, we see fighters, apparently supporters of Bashar al-Assad, torturing two men to death for several minutes stabs and blocks béton.
Bertrand Boucey for service français
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