This image taken from video obtained from the Shaam News Network shows a Free Syrian Army fighter in Taftanaz village, northern Syria, yesterday. Rebels attacked a sprawling air base in an attempt to sideline President Bashar Assad's forces. Source: AP
MORE than 60,000 people have been killed in Syria since the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad's regime erupted in March 2011, a top UN official says.
Navi Pillay, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, said an exhaustive analysis carried out by data specialists showed 59,648 people had died up to the end of November.
"Given 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," Mr Pillay concluded in a statement yesterday.
"The number of casualties is much higher than we expected, and is truly shocking," she said.
Mr Pillay had said in December 2011 that the UN was unable to provide a precise figure on the number of deaths, and media have been relying on the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based watchdog, which on Monday had put the total number of those killed at more than 46,000.
In reference to the UN figure, Mr Pillay said that "although this is the most detailed and wide-ranging analysis of casualty figures so far, this is by no means a definitive figure.
This citizen journalism image taken from video provided by Shaam News Network shows a wounded man being pulled from the site of a Syrian government airstrike on a gas station in the eastern Damascus suburb of Mleiha, Syria, yesterday.
"We have not been able to verify the circumstances of each and every death, partly because of the nature of the conflict and partly because we have not been allowed inside Syria since the unrest began in March 2011."
The UN High Commissioner added that "once there is peace in Syria, further investigations will be necessary to discover precisely how many people have died, and in what circumstances, and who was responsible for all the crimes that have been committed".
The analysts cited by the UN official noted 60,000 was likely to be an underestimate of the actual number of deaths, given reports containing insufficient information were excluded from the list, and a significant number of killings might not have been documented.
The analysis - which the UN High Commissioner stressed is "a work in progress, not a final product" - shows a steady increase in the average number of documented deaths per month since the beginning of the conflict, from around 1000 per month in the northern summer of 2011 to an average of more than 5000 per month since July 2012.
The greatest number of reported killings have occurred in Homs (12,560), rural Damascus (10,862) and Idlib (7686), followed by Aleppo (6188), Daraa (6034) and Hama (5080).
Smoke rises from buildings in Taftanaz village, Idlib province, northern Syria, yesterday after rebels attacked a sprawling air base in an attempt to sideline President Bashar Assad's forces.
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