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> The Assad regime killed 100,000 of its own citizens? I thought that was
> the estimate of the total number killed. Did the rebels not kill anyone.
> Are refugees only fleeing from the Assad regime?
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At least 100,000. We don't have precise numbers, but this is the informed guesstimate from citizen journalists, Doctors Without Borders, and various UN fact-finding missions. Most of the deaths are civilians killed by regime airstrikes, artillery and missile attacks on civilian neighborhoods. The city of Homs has been practically leveled, and big chunks of Syria's cities (translation: wherever big numbers of Sunnis live) have been blasted to smithereens. Also note that Amnesty International has excellent documentation of the regime's massive use of the most gruesome and sickening torture in its jails.
In re the regime's chemical attacks: this is incontrovertible. We have massive medical, video, eyewitness and intelligence confirmation. This is an Alawite minoritarian regime committing chemical genocide against the Sunni majority of its own country. I know the anti-war folks have the best of intentions, but they being duped by a monstrous dictatorship they have not adequately researched.
Research tips: read anything Amal Hanano has written (Yandex or Google her), especially "The Eyes of Homs".
Syria Deeply: http://beta.syriadeeply.org/
Casualty list: http://www.vdc-sy.info/index.php/en/
Tweeps: https://twitter.com/THE_47th https://twitter.com/Brown_Moses https://twitter.com/AlexanderPageSY
-- DRR