People placing bodies in a mass grave in the village of Taftanaz, Syria, April 7, 2012. Photo by Reuters / Shaam News Network
UN Abandons Death Count In Syria, Citing Inability To Verify Toll -- Al Jazeera
As reliable sources drop out, UN says any casualty estimate it could provide would be 'misleading'
The United Nations has stopped updating the death toll from Syria’s near-three-year civil war due to its waning ability to verify sources and produce credible estimates, a spokesman for the U.N. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights confirmed Tuesday.
Prior to July, when the U.N. last published a death toll estimate of just over 100,000 people, the team of statisticians were able to cross-check estimates from six different sources – from various NGOs to the Syrian government itself. That number has since dwindled.
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