Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Comparing Syria's War Dead With Other Past Civil Wars


By The Numbers: Syria Deaths -- CNN Staff

More than 60,000 people have been killed in Syria since unrest began in the country nearly two years ago, according to the latest estimate from the United Nations.

And that might actually be an "underestimate," according to U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay, who reported the statistics this year. She said Syria's raging civil war has made it "increasingly challenging" to collect accurate and reliable data.

But even if that number is on the low side, it does provide a way to put Syria's conflict in historical context.

Take a look at Syria's statistics below and see how they compare with statistics from another recent civil war (Libya), civil wars in countries of similar size (Yugoslavia in the 1990s and Spain in the 1930s) and even the Civil War in the United States.

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My Comment: Sobering statistics, and a heads-up on how bloody the Syrian civil war can become.

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