Death March in Syria
▻http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2014/01/15/mapped_syrian_civil_war_deaths
racking the casualties of Syria’s civil war has been difficult, if not impossible, from the very start. Since March 2011, the United Nations has struggled to glean reliable information from the fog of war. The U.N. has relied on the Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG), a San Francisco-based non-profit “that applies rigorous science to the analysis of human rights violations around the world,” to sort through data from eight different sources including independent observatories and Syrian human rights watchers.
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Read Tina Rosenberg’s fascinating profile of Patrick Ball and the methodology behind HRDAG’s numbers, written back when the body count in Syria was estimated at less than 10,000.) Killings were counted only if the name of the victim and the date and location of death were known, making the figures provided by the United Nations and HRDAG non-exhaustive; rather, they are the minimum number of people who have died in Syria.