Syria death toll now above 100,000, says UN chief Ban
Source: BBC
More than 100,000 people have been killed in the conflict in Syria, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has said.
The latest estimate of the number killed is 7,000 higher than that issued by the UN only last month.
Mr Ban was speaking at UN headquarters in New York alongside US Secretary of State John Kerry.
Both men stressed the urgency of finding a political solution to the conflict. Mr Ban appealed for fresh efforts to convene a peace conference.
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John2
(2,730 posts)the casualty reports of both sides. Among those casualties, there are thousands of Foreign fighters getting killed also, mostly from the opposition. The Syrian Army has been putting out exact names and nationalities of the foreign fighters they have killed and they are many nationalities. They have many of them in prison too.
They have also revealed their own casualties and the lost of civilians killed by the opposition in car bombings and assassinations. They revealed a name of one of their top Generals that just got killed in battle against the terrorists. Their first lady attended his funeral. The Syrian military is doing what all militarie's is suppose to do and that is defending their country against foreign aggression. Moon can go a long way in telling the opposition to get out of Syria. What I mean specifically, is to tell the U.S. Britain, France, Saudi Arabia,Qatar,and Israel to stop supplying their mercenary armies. The Egyptian military and Lebanese military have already done their parts.
If this Saudi Tribal leader and General Idriss as heads of the opposition can win an election in syria, then let them run. The Saudi Tribal leader would be disqualified from the start, because he isn't even a Syrian. Moon is nothing but a South Korean U.S. puppet.
Arctic Dave
(13,812 posts)and that was a full scale war and sectarian violence for ten years.
Not a big fan of their statistics.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)Can you provide a link to a source you would be a fan of?
David__77
(23,511 posts)But of course he won't. I hope the next general secretary is from a neutral country and is more progressive.
24601
(3,962 posts)Party.
David__77
(23,511 posts)I think "secretary-general" is a carryover from the French language that dominates much diplomatic activity.