More than 465,000 civilians have been killed in Syria\u2019s six-year civil war, a refugee rights group said Saturday.
\nAbdullah Resul Demir, deputy chairman of the International Refugee Rights Organization, said the fatalities had been caused during fighting or in prison.
\n\u201cThe century\u2019s most serious human rights violations have been going on in Syria,\u201d he told Anadolu Agency. \u201cHowever, all the world\u2019s countries have turned a blind eye to this situation.\u201d
\nDemir said the figure was based on evidence from independent observers between March 2011 and November 2017.
\nOf the dead, \u201c26,466 of them were children,\u201d he said. \u201cThirteen million people fled their homes and became refugees [and] 3.5 million children were deprived of one of their basic rights, education.\u201d
\nThe organization has logged 162 chemical attacks carried out over the last three years, he added.
\nIn April last year, the UN special envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura estimated 400,000 people had been killed during the war.
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