U.N. Syrian Envoy: 400,000 Syrians have Been Killed In The War

Foreign Policy: Syria death toll likely as high as 400,000: UN envoy

Staffan de Mistura stressed that figure was a personal estimate, but said official UN figure of 250,000 was two years out of date

The death toll from Syria's civil war could be as high as 400,000, the UN envoy said on Friday, in what would be a major revision of casualty figures.

Speaking during a press conference in Geneva – where parties to the conflict are holding fraught talks – Staffan de Mistura stressed that the figure was based on his own personal estimate, but said the UN's current figures are out of date.

“We had 250,000 as a figure two years ago,” de Mistura told reporters. “Well, two years ago was two years ago.”

He said that, while he is not “capable of giving mathematical certitude,” an estimate that includes people who have died because of a lack of medical care and other “secondary lives lost...we will not be far away [from 400,000]”.

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Update: U.N. Envoy Revises Syria Death Toll to 400,000 (Foreign Policy).

WNU Editor: This is a conflict where the true numbers will not be known until after the war when everyone picks up the pices.