Posted on 08/23/2014 7:09:07 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
The number of dead in Syria’s civil war more than doubled in the past year to at least 191,000, the United Nations human rights office said Friday. The agency’s chief, Navi Pillay, bluntly criticized Western nations, saying their inaction in the face of the slaughter had “empowered and emboldened” the killers.
In its third report on Syria commissioned by the United Nations, the Human Rights Data Analysis Group identified 191,369 deaths from the start of the conflict in March 2011 to April 2014, more than double the 92,901 deaths cited in the group’s last report, which covered the first two years of the conflict.
“Tragically, it is probably an underestimate of the real total number of people killed during the first three years of this murderous conflict,” Ms. Pillay said in a statement that accompanied the report, which observed that many killings in Syria were undocumented.
The report was confined to counting individuals who had been identified by name, along with the date and location of their death, using data from five organizations that was screened to avoid duplication. It did not include nearly 52,000 deaths that were recorded but lacked sufficient detail
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Need to get Jimmy the C on it right away.
And if we had stayed out of it, the war would probably be over and the numbers far lower.
The problem with this is with the UN and Media accepting fake numbers from Hamas these real numbers are going to be meaningless in comparison.
> the United Nations human rights office said... The agency’s chief, Navi Pillay, bluntly criticized Western nations, saying their inaction in the face of the slaughter had “empowered and emboldened” the killers...
That’s interesting, since at least 80 percent of the killing has been by Assad’s thugs, his Iranian allied thugs, or the hizzie proxies of Iran.
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