An Analysis On How Many Syrians Have Been Killed After 22 Months Of Civil War

Data Dive Reveals 15,000 New Victims of Syria War -- Danger Room

The world already believed Syria’s civil war to be monstrous, with nearly 45,000 slain. But when the United Nations plunged into the disparate databases cataloguing the victims, it discovered there had been an awful oversight. The true death toll was more like 60,000 people, the data-mining operation revealed. And even that elevated total is likely to be low.

The brutal truth is that no one really knows how many Syrians have died in dictator Bashar Assad’s brutal crackdown: warzone death estimates are notoriously imprecise. By its own admission, the death toll compiled by the human rights tech group Benetech, on behalf of the U.N., is inaccurate. But its assessment has the virtue of specificity, a factor that preempts some of the doubts raised about mortality estimates in other warzones. The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, called the study “a work in progress, not a final product.”

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My Comment: No one really knows how many Syrians have been killed after 22 months of war .... but I do suspect that the numbers are now increasing exponentially .... everyone wants to end this war, and as a result there is now a frenzy of firefights and bombings occurring in much of the country. My prediction .... and using the Bosnian civil war as my template .... this civil war is going to drag on for another year or two and the casualty rate .... when it is all finished .... the death will be closer to 250,000 .... and that is if WMDs are not used.