Syria Death Toll Passes 100,000

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United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon has said that the death toll of the Syrian civil war has passed the 100,000 mark. In the past the U.N. has said that its casualty figures are underestimated as many deaths are unreported.

The news comes a day after António Guterres, the United Nations high commissioner for refugees, said that the U.S. could be one of the countries asked to take in some of the nearly 2 million Syrian refugees.

From the 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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Comments

[Aresen]

And, should BHO decide to get involved, every one of them will be blamed on the US.

Stay the **** out of it!

[Hugh Akston]

the U.S. could be one of the countries asked to take in some of the nearly 2 million Syrian refugees.

Seems legit. I mean, the US is so close to Syria both geographically and culturally. we want those poor people to feel safe and welcome, and we know how well America treats its immigrants.

[SugarFree]

Give them Detroit.

[Restoras]

Curse your non-sugarsticky nimble fingers!

[Restoras]

Detroit is available for repopulation, right?

[Robert]

America does treat immigrants very well, and they don't often stalk & kill each other here. Seriously, enemies in their home country, once they come to the USA, suddenly become peaceful with each other and everybody else. Like, you didn't hear about Kosovars in the US murdering other Yugoslavs or vice versa. They write of these foreign conflicts as if the people there were implacable enemies, but removed from that enivronment, they aren't any more.

So yeah, clean out the entire popul'n of Syria, bring 'em to the USA, problem solved. Or maybe not, because maybe it works only for those who voluntarily emigrate.

[Longtorso, Johnny]

The Cleveland Browns are going to be busy.

[Anonymous Coward]

The Browns like to keep their post-season schedule free just in cause.

[Anonymous Coward]

Just in CASE, even.

[Generic Stranger]

Just ignore them, they'll run out of energy soon.

[R C Dean]

Whatever happened to "responsibility to protect", anyway? You remember, the fierce moral urgency of bombing the crap out of authoritarians fighting Islamonutter insurgencies?

[Cytotoxic]

Got bored.

[Floridian]

Over 600000 people died in the US civil war. Sorry, this is a local fight. They have to sort it out.

[Invisible Finger]

Not only that, the US population at the time (including slaves) was only a few million more than Syria's current population.

[Robert]

100,000!? To get a figure like that in a country that size in that short a time, it's not just brother killing brother, it must be like, fetuses packing heat already in utero and shooting their mother from the inside!

[Invisible Finger]

Obama has trained me not to care about any numbers lower than a few hundred million.