Damascus, Safar 13, 1434, Dec 26, 2012, SPA -- More than 45,000 people have been killed for the past 21 months of conflict in Syria. The Director of Syrian Observatory for Human Rights Rami Abdulrahman said in a statement today that the dead people since mid-March, 2011, included 31, 544 civilians, 1,511 defecting soldiers, 11,217 personnel of regime's forces, and 776 unidentified persons. --SPA 13:55 LOCAL TIME 10:55 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/1062917