(12 Oct 2018) The US-led coalition campaign against then Islamic State group in Raqqa caused thousands of civilian casualties, Amnesty International said on Friday.
The international human rights group also warned that the looming Syrian government offensive in Idlib will likely cause hundreds more civilian deaths and widespread destruction.
The group called on Russia to exert its power on Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime to try to avoid human rights violations.
Amnesty says that so far 2521 bodies have been recovered in Raqqa from underneath the rubbled of destroyed buildings, the majority killed by US-led coalition airstrikes,
There are "more bodies underneath the ground than living souls," said Anya Neistat, Amnesty International's Senior Director of Global Research, who recently returned from a trip to Syria.
While in Raqqa, Amnesty International met with the Early Recovery Team, a small unit that digs up bodies and buries them.
They expect to recover at least 3,000 more bodies.
Neistat said the deaths are the subject of an ongoing investigation documenting what the coalition's "so-called surgical precision strikes" meant on the ground.
The US-led coalition admits to only 77 deaths as a result of its airstrikes on Syria.
The US and its coalition partners launched their campaign against the Islamic State group in 2014, driving out the militants' from their self-proclaimed capital in Raqqa three years later.
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