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Report on Syria conflict finds 11.5% of population killed or injured
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Centre for Policy Research says 470,000 deaths is twice UN’s figure
with ‘human development ruined’ after 45% of population is displaced
A
man carries a child from a building following a reported barrel bomb
attack by Syrian government forces on Aleppo. Some 50,000 people have
fled the recent upsurge in fighting there. Photograph: Karam
Al-Masri/AFP/Getty
Ian Black Middle East editor
Syria’s
national wealth, infrastructure and institutions have been “almost
obliterated” by the “catastrophic impact” of nearly five years of
conflict, a new report has found. Fatalities caused by war, directly and
indirectly, amount to 470,000, according to the Syrian Centre for Policy Research (SCPR)
– a far higher total than the figure of 250,000 used by the United
Nations until it stopped collecting statistics 18 months ago.
In
all, 11.5% of the country’s population have been killed or injured
since the crisis erupted in March 2011, the report estimates. The number
of wounded is put at 1.9 million. Life expectancy has dropped from 70
in 2010 to 55.4 in 2015. Overall economic losses are estimated at $255bn
(£175bn).http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/11/report-on-syria-conflict-finds-115-of-population-killed-or-injured
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