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Syria death toll climbs

Issue: February 2013

This article appears on page 18 of the February 2013 issue.

On Jan. 2 the United Nations Office of the Human Rights Commissioner reported that, as of November 2012, the number of dead from the ongoing Syrian civil war had increased to 60,000.

The death toll actually could be much higher, as the analysis of the more than 147,000 reported casualties in Syria, both military and civilian, excluded any that were not substantiated by at least four elements (first name, last name, date, and location of death).

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