Syrian death toll passes 130,000-----Anti-Assad group

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The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Tuesday in Beirut the death toll in the country's civil war has risen to at least 130,433.
More than a third of the deaths are civilians on both sides of the conflict.
The conflict in Syria began in March 2011 as peaceful protests against four decades of rule by President Bashar al-Assad's family.
It then turned into an armed insurgency whose sectarian dimensions have reverberated across the Middle East.
The anti-Assad Observatory, based in Britain but with a network of sources across Syria, put the number of women and children killed in the conflict so far at 11,709.
It said the death toll among rebels fighting the Assad government was at least 29,083.
Deaths among the Syrian armed forces and fighters supporting Assad were at least 52,290.
This included 262 fighters from the Lebanese Shi'ite group Hezbollah and 286 from other non-Syrian Shi'ite groups.
Both Sunni and Shi'ite militants from the region have joined the fight on opposite sides.
The Observatory said at least 17,000 people were being held in government prisons, while more than 6,000 government supporters were in the custody of Islamist rebels.
It said the actual number of people killed and imprisoned was likely to be at least 50,000 higher.
But it also said it could not verify those cases because the identities of the victims were hidden or missing.
However, the United Nations has not given regular casualty counts for Syria and has said for months that more than 100,000 have been killed.

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