Syria: UN estimates conflict has left at least 350,000 dead in ten years
A Turkish soldier near an armored vehicle in the Syrian town of Ain Issa (illustrative image).
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350,209 people killed in Syria in ten years of conflict.
This is the updated assessment of the war in Syria according to the UN.
The United Nations had stopped counting the victims after 2014, considering that it could no longer confirm the information that came from Syria.
The UN warns, however: only verified and verifiable deaths have been counted.
The real toll of the conflict is still unknown.
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With our correspondent in Geneva,
Jérémie Lanche
It was at the start of the conflict, in 2012, that the violence caused the most deaths.
More than 60,000 in one year.
Without knowing whether they are combatants or civilians.
After 2016 and the regime's takeover of Aleppo, the number of killed fell to just under 8,000 last year.
One in 13 victims is a woman.
One in 13 is a child.
The UN only counted people who could be formally identified, explains the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michèle Bachelet.
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This figure of 350,209 victims is statistically reliable.
But it cannot and should not be seen as the outcome of the conflict in Syria.
Rather, it is a low and verifiable limit, but it is certain that the true figure is undoubtedly much higher.
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The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an NGO close to the opposition and which has been an authority since the start of the conflict on the number of victims, estimates that their total number is closer to 500,000. which does not take into account the tens of thousands of people who probably perished in the prisons of the Bashar al-Assad regime.
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