Syria Death Toll Visualized

As the number of protesters killed in Syria's uprising continues to ratchet up, the mounting death toll has soared to numbers that are difficult for the human mind to grasp. To illustrate just how bad the bloodshed in the al-Assad regime's crackdown truly is, Canada's National Post has put together a haunting infographic.

While the exact number of civilian casualties is difficult to pinpoint because of Syria's restrictions on foreign media, data from the Post shows that 6,375 people have lost their lives in the past 10 months. Official UN estimates put the number at 5,200 since March 2011.

According to the graphic below, 6,081 of those who have died were men, 294 women, and 431 children. Meanwhile, President Bashar al-Assad claims that 2,000 members of the country's army have lost their lives.

Syria's bloody crackdown has continued to spark widespread international condemnation. On Sunday, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon renewed his call for Syria's president Bashar al-Assad to end the killings. "Today, I say again to President (Bashar) Assad of Syria: Stop the violence. Stop killing your people," Ban said, according to the Associated Press.

The image below also highlights the 713 soldiers killed for refusing to fire on their fellow citizens. via National Post.

Comments

[wom122]

10:42 AM on 01/22/2012

Sensational graphism but would a NATO intervention result in less bloodshed? Going by the precedents the answer would be no.

[Wanku Charles Wang]

02:37 PM on 01/23/2012

But the blood will likely be wasted if more developed and democratic countries don't intervene. the dictator controls the army, the tanks, the guns. people are far less armed. if no other countries help, the horror of dictator and totalitarian will only continue to torture everyone there.

[grizzly bear55]

03:42 AM on 01/24/2012

Another glass of cool aid may help you.

[Richard Aron]

12:47 PM on 01/21/2012

I truly feel sorry for the innocent human lives lost in nonsense because of stupid leaders and dictators. I hope the Syrians see their freedom one day. I know that this day is not coming soon, but hopefully it will come.

[Fred303]

11:17 PM on 01/20/2012

Over 100,000 Iraqi citizen were killed because of Americas occupation of Iraq , did they also get a sympathetic graph?

100,000!!

[thaneb]

05:49 PM on 01/20/2012

The Mickey Mouse pareidolia in the image surely could have been removed in respect to the victims.

[LMPE]

04:02 PM on 01/20/2012

This would have never happened had the UK and France not arbitrarily drawn up borders after WWI.

[SmotPoker]

08:41 AM on 01/20/2012

The Grim Reaper indeed.

[Jan Harper]

03:19 PM on 01/19/2012

Not really. There are plenty of video out there from the Jihad in Libya. Same people, different flags.

[Rafael Perez]

01:13 AM on 01/19/2012

picture looks like a skull...

[Galilee]

06:00 PM on 01/18/2012

Where are all those who supported the Jihadi Turkish flotilla for Hamas?
They only care about Arabs - when Arabs fire on Israel.
Where is Code Pink ?

[Heso]

09:06 AM on 01/19/2012

"Jihadi Turkish flotilla for hamas"

You won't find those, but you might find people like me who supported Gaza freedom Turkish anti-blockade flotilla that was raided by Israeli navy at night.

oh wait, why did i read this topic ?, shouldn't i don't care as you imply ?

"They only care about Arabs - when Arabs fire on Israel."

It seems pro-Israel only care to protest when Palestinians attack Israelis, and pro-Palestine only care to protest when "Israelis" attack Palestinians, nothing new here.

Most Arabs support anti-assad protesters, but Arab league will not be effective until each or most of Arab countries become a democracy, and that is not going to happen tomorrow

[Galilee]

10:18 AM on 01/19/2012

Jihadi Turks only care about "Palestinia­ns" and not Syrians?
That was my point.

[Jan Harper]

03:20 PM on 01/19/2012

He is too jaded to be bothered with. Hate consumes his life.

[emncaity]

04:15 PM on 01/18/2012

But there's no oil there, so of course we don't care.

All the rhetoric about needing to remove a murderous dictator who killed his own people, blah blah blah...is ANYONE here stup!d enough to think the world doesn't know exactly who we are and what we do?

[Juda Farmer]

03:09 PM on 01/18/2012

How wrong is it, that 100 Egyptians died and we sent in the drones and the World joined in. Here we 6k+ and all we see is news articles. To bad Syria doesnt have anything of value and we're scared of Iran getting involved.

Another failure of Foreign Policy, by our President and Senate.

[Nico Jordaan]

02:51 AM on 01/23/2012

Um Syria is oil rich actually. The US cannot get involved because Russia and China has said they will not allow it. So the US isnt scared of IRAN, they are scared of China and Russia that could wipe them off the map.