The death toll in Syria continues to rise - whoever is doing the counting
▻http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/the-death-toll-in-syria-continues-torise--whoever-is--doing-the-count
And I also remember curling up in bed the night before with Rise and Fall of the Third Reich in which William Shirer records the German bombing of Rotterdam in 1940.
“It was first reported and long believed that from 25,00 to 30,000 Dutch were killed,” Shirer wrote. That was the figure given in the next edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. But at the Nuremburg trials, the Dutch government gave the final figure as just 814 killed.
I have a feeling there is a lesson here for all those fatalities statistics we imbibe on Syria. Fifty thousand? One hundred and ten thousand? Half a million? Assad’s jets were still flying over Damascus this afternoon. I suppose the only sure fact is that the figures are definitely climbing.