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Source: http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/turning-syria_588193.html
The Toll in Syria
(Weekly Standard) Emanuele Ottolenghi - According to Ammar Abdulhamid, a prominent Syrian opposition figure, as of last week, the regime had murdered 2,675 people, including 158 children below the age of 14, and detained 16,000. Another 4,382 are missing. In addition, since protests began in March, there have been 28 documented cases of rape and 89 of death under torture. Thousands of refugees have fled for Turkey or Lebanon.