{"id":4333,"date":"2015-09-30T12:02:19","date_gmt":"2015-09-30T16:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=4333"},"modified":"2015-10-01T12:06:25","modified_gmt":"2015-10-01T16:06:25","slug":"civilian-deaths-from-weapons-in-the-syrian-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/civilian-deaths-from-weapons-in-the-syrian-conflict\/","title":{"rendered":"Civilian deaths from weapons in the syrian conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Syrian children and women are disproportionately affected by explosive weapons in populated areas, and their use \u201cshould be urgently prohibited\u201d according to the authors of a new study. These weapons include shelling, air bombardment, and car bombs.<\/p>\n<p>The research team examined over 78,000 civilian violent deaths that occurred in Syria from March 2011, to January 2015. They found that child-deaths were caused by shelling or air bombardments between 66 and 75 per cent of the time, depending on who controlled the \u00a0region.<\/p>\n<p>The authors call for these types of weapons to \u201cbe prohibited or systematically monitored to demonstrate civilian protection.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/351\/bmj.h4736\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in<em>\u00a0<\/em>the\u00a0<em>BMJ\u00a0<\/em>on <strong>September 29<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2015<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0author<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Debarati Guha-Sapir, Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters, Universit\u00e9 Catholique de Louvain, Belgium<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Syrian children and women are disproportionately affected by explosive weapons in populated areas, and their use \u201cshould be urgently prohibited\u201d according to the authors of a new study. These weapons include shelling, air bombardment, and car bombs. The research team examined over 78,000 civilian violent deaths that occurred in Syria from March 2011, to January [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[1851,2456,2455],"class_list":["post-4333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-anthropology","tag-syria","tag-war"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-17T","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4334,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4333\/revisions\/4334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}