More than 60,000 people have died in the Syrian uprising and civil war, the United Nations said on Wednesday, dramatically raising the death toll in a struggle that shows no sign of ending. Dozens were killed in a Damascus suburb when a government air strike turned a petrol station into an inferno, incinerating drivers who had rushed there for a rare chance to fill their tanks, activists said. “I counted at least 30 bodies. They were either burnt or dismembered,” said Abu Saeed, an activist who arrived at the area an hour after the raid occurred at 1:00 PM (1100 GMT) in Muleiha, a suburb on the eastern edge of the capital. U.N. Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay said in Geneva that researchers cross-referencing seven sources over five months of analysis had listed 59,648 people killed in Syria between March 15, 2011 and November 30, 2012. “The number of casualties is much higher than we expected and is truly shocking,” she said. “Given that there has been no let-up in the conflict since the end of November, we can assume that more than 60,000 people have been killed by the beginning of 2013.” READ ON: U.N. raises Syria death toll to 60,000
Pop-upView Separately

More than 60,000 people have died in the Syrian uprising and civil war, the United Nations said on Wednesday, dramatically raising the death toll in a struggle that shows no sign of ending.

Dozens were killed in a Damascus suburb when a government air strike turned a petrol station into an inferno, incinerating drivers who had rushed there for a rare chance to fill their tanks, activists said.

“I counted at least 30 bodies. They were either burnt or dismembered,” said Abu Saeed, an activist who arrived at the area an hour after the raid occurred at 1:00 PM (1100 GMT) in Muleiha, a suburb on the eastern edge of the capital.

U.N. Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay said in Geneva that researchers cross-referencing seven sources over five months of analysis had listed 59,648 people killed in Syria between March 15, 2011 and November 30, 2012.

“The number of casualties is much higher than we expected and is truly shocking,” she said. “Given that there has been no let-up in the conflict since the end of November, we can assume that more than 60,000 people have been killed by the beginning of 2013.”

READ ON: U.N. raises Syria death toll to 60,000

395 Notes/ Hide

  1. salvadormartinez669 reblogged this from reuters and added:
    basketball
  2. thecionrichardson reblogged this from reuters
  3. jess552 reblogged this from bornthisbrown
  4. shelovesherking reblogged this from reuters and added:
    The end times are here… We should not be surprised...happening. Prayers go out
  5. ombres-de-minuit reblogged this from leptiir and added:
    60,000. 60,000 and more lives taken, while others sit and watch. These people are being treated like mere numbers now....
  6. leptiir reblogged this from reuters
  7. onespecies reblogged this from reuters
  8. shindi93 reblogged this from reuters
  9. salmoomah reblogged this from roxygen
  10. newsfeederlive reblogged this from reuters
  11. leftistshuffle reblogged this from anarcho-queer
  12. aantlerss reblogged this from alzati
  13. alzati reblogged this from roxygen
  14. lesbian-not-queer reblogged this from roxygen
  15. rang-baban reblogged this from roxygen
  16. altapetit reblogged this from roxygen
  17. pagodane reblogged this from roxygen
  18. roxygen reblogged this from haralambros
  19. haralambros reblogged this from tjjourian
  20. tasty-venom reblogged this from reuters
  21. thiswillbebeautiful reblogged this from reuters
  22. drvonskillet reblogged this from eastlondoner