The Human Cost Of Syria's Civil War In One Graph

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Daily Chart: The War In Syria -- The Economist

The human cost of the war in Syria

WITH no end in sight, Syria's civil war is boiling over into the surrounding region. On October 5th, the day after mortar attacks on a Turkish town presumably by Syria's army killed five people, the Turkish parliament authorised the army to invade Syria, if necessary. Since then, Turkish troops have returned fire every day as Bashar Assad's forces continue sporadic shelling across the border. Turkey is already host to 94,000 of the 328,000 refugees who are known to have fled to neighbouring countries, says the UN's refugee agency, including over 5,000 who have made it as far as north Africa.

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My Comment: I expect these numbers to double by the beginning of 2013.