Alwaght-Released on
March 10th, the report entitled Syria: the Syrian Centre developed Alienation
and violence, Impact of the Syria Crisis for Policy Research with the support
of the UN Development Programme (UNDP) and the UN Relief and Works Agency for
Palestine refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), according to Press TV.
“While crushing the aspirations of the Syrian people and their
ability to build and form institutions that can restore human security and
respect human dignity and rights, the armed conflict has depleted the capital
and wealth of the country,” the report said.
The report also
says that the ongoing deadly crisis in the Middle Eastern country has hollowed
up its population by 15 percent.
“The population of Syria was hollowed out by 15 percent as 3.33
million Syrians fled as refugees to other countries, together with a 1.55
million persons who migrated to find work and a safer life elsewhere,” the
report noted, adding, “Within the remaining population of Syria, some 6.8
million people had been internally displaced.”
The report
further highlights that in excess of 10 million people have been forced to flee
their homes and “the appalling loss of life” has reached 210,000 people.
It also alarms
that as many as 840,000 people have suffered injuries in the armed conflict in
the country.
“Equally horrendous is the silent disaster that has reduced life
expectancy at birth from 75.9 years in 2010 to an estimated 55.7 years at the
end of 2014, reducing longevity and life expectancy by 27 per cent,” the report
noted.
The report also
sheds light on the impact of the crisis on the economy of the country, saying,
“Total economic loss since the start of the conflict until the end of 2014 is
estimated at $202.6 billion, with damage to capital stock accounting for 35.5
per cent of this loss.”
“Total economic loss is equivalent to 383 per cent of the GDP of
2010 in constant prices,” it warns.
“The people of Syria are now forced to live under a terrible state
of exception, estrangement and alienation with a massive social, political and
economic chasm dividing them from those involved in violence and the
institutions of violence,” the report concludes.
Syria has been
gripped by deadly violence since March 2011.
The violence fueled by ISIL Takfiri groups has reportedly been supported
by the Western powers and their regional allies -- especially Qatar, Saudi and
Turkey.
