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Introduction and Citation:

This report covers the period from Sat 16-5-2015 until Fri 22-5-2015. However, it is worth pointing out the following:
1. Fatalities of the regime, the Army of National Defense (Shabiha), Lebanese Hizbullah, Iraqi and
Iranian Militias are not included in the reported death toll. The report only includes the victims
- which our center was able to document - at the hands of the regime in addition to a special list
of the victims who fell by the fires of either the Islamic State in Iraq and Sham (ISIS) or the coalition forces against ISIS if there is any. It doesnt include numbers of victims at the hands of
other fighting brigades.
2. These figures are not final in any way, and they are subject to continuous and periodic scrutiny
by centers activists, the data base administrators and the field documentation team.
3. Figures may differ between reports, even within the same district, and this can be referred to the
territorial audit that would reveal places of errors and faults, as well as the continuous follow up
to identify undistinguished bodies whenever they are identified.
First: Victims of the Week
During this period, the Violations Documentation Center in Syria was able to document (355) victims
in all the Syrian governorates, (325) of whom were documented by names, while (30) i.e. (8 %) of the
total, were unidentified bodies because they had turned into carnages. However, all those were documented just by witnessing.

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Second: the Distribution of Victims according to Governorates

Idlib governorate witnessed the fall of the largest number of victims, as the total number was (126
victims) i.e. (35 %), followed by Aleppo were the total of victims was (46 victims) i.e. (13 %), then
Deir Ezzor (43) victims i.e. (12 %) of the total number of victims.

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Third: the Distribution of victims according to Death Causes

(95) Victims i.e. (27 %) died as a result of fire shots and sniper bullets, whereas (154) victims i.e. (44
%) died because of air shelling and barrel bombs. Moreover, (55) victims i.e. (15 %) were killed because of artillery and mortar shelling.
VDC has also documented the death of (7) detainees under torture in detention centers on Syria and
we were able to document (2) victims have been identified by the families and activist in Caesar
report. Also, (8) victims i.e. (2) were killed as a result of bombing. While there were (3) victims dead
due to lack of food and due the siege.

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27%

44%

15%

Fourth: the Distribution of Victims according to the Days of the Week

Saturday 16-5-2015 witnessed the fall of the largest number of victims, when (90) of them fell i.e. (25
%) of the total. After that, Wednesday 20-5-2015 when (66) of them fell i.e. (18.50 %) of the total.
Then Tuesday 19-5-2015 witnessed the fall of (60).

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Fifth: the Distribution of victims according to Gender:

The number of reported male adult victims is (270), i.e. (76 %) of the total; the number of male children victims is (25), i.e. (7 %); the number of adult females is (39), i.e. (11 %) and the number of
female children is (21), i.e. (6%).

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270

21

39

Child Male

Adult Male

Child Female

Adult Female

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Sixth: the Distribution of Victims according to the Category (Civilian/ Non-civilian)

(254) civilian victims were reported i.e. (71.5%) of the total, and also (101) fighters fell i.e. (29.5%)
one of them is a child.

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Adult Male

Child Male

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29%

71%

Noncivilian

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Seventh: Victims at the hands of the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (ISIS)
During this week, Violations Documentation Center has documented more than (53) victims at the hands of the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (ISIS/Daash), at least (31) of them
are civilians.

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