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UN tallies 350K dead in Syria civil war over last decade, admits toll likely higher

The Associated Press • September 24, 2021, 22:52:28 IST
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The new figure provided by the UN rights office is far lower than an estimate from the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights, which in June put the estimated death toll in the war at more than 606,000

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UN tallies 350K dead in Syria civil war over last decade, admits toll likely higher

Geneva: The United Nations human rights chief said Friday that her office has documented the deaths of 350,209 people — civilians and combatants — in Syria’s civil war over the last decade, while admitting the real number for those killed in the conflict is almost certainly far higher.

Michelle Bachelet said the figures, dating between March 2011 and March 2021, were tallied based on information that identified people by name as well as by date and location of death. The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights has long cited difficulties in obtaining a clear picture of the rights situation in Syria, and stopped updating the death toll from Syria’s civil war in early 2014 — at a count of 191,369.

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The new figure provided by the UN rights office is far lower than an estimate from the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights, which in June put the estimated death toll in the war at more than 606,000 — including some 495,000 documented deaths.

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The office has traditionally provided conservative figures for death tolls from a number of crises around the world, a testament to its strict methodology in tallying fallouts from violence.

“We assess this figure of 350,209 as statistically sound, based as it is on rigorous work,” Bachelet told the Human Rights Council, the UN’s top human rights body. “But it is not — and should not be seen as — a complete number of conflict-related killings in Syria during this period. It indicates a minimum verifiable number, and is certainly an under-count of the actual number of killings.”

She said her office was sifting through “partial information” that had been excluded from its tally.

“Today, the daily lives of the Syrian people remain scarred by unimaginable suffering,” she said. “And there is still no end to the violence they endure; just last month, civilians in and around Daraa were exposed to intense fighting and indiscriminate shelling by government forces and armed opposition groups.”

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The Syrian conflict, which started amid Arab Spring uprisings in 2011 and devolved into an insurgency and civil war, has resulted in one of the largest humanitarian catastrophes in the past century, and has displaced millions of Syrians now scattered across the globe.

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