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Early insurgency phase of the Syrian Civil War army continued fighting even after the peace plan. The United Nations-backed ceasefire was brokered by special envoy Kofi Annan and declared in mid-April 2012, but eventually met a similar fate, with unarmed UN peacekeepers' movements tightly controlled by the government and fighting. By early June 2012, the civil war entered its most violent phase, with fighting spreading all across the country and fatalities mounting in unprecedented numbers. Incommunicado detention, including of children, also continued. Early insurgency phase of the Syrian Civil War The early insurgency phase of the Syrian Civil War lasted from late July 2011 to April 2012, and