Estimating the human toll of war or humanitarian crisis is a vital job,but no one can quite agree on how to do itAt least 240000 Syrians absorb died violently since the civil war flared up four years ago, according to the Violations Documentation middle in Syria. Or perhaps the violent death toll is closer to 330000, and as reported by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. While initially reluctant to issue figures,the United Nations recently took a safe line and stated that 250000 Syrians had died in the armed clash. Such statistical irregularity is alarmingly common when it comes to counting the dead.[br]consume the case of the fighting in Darfur, Sudan between 2003 and 2004. Experts claimed it had resulted in more than 450000 deaths, or but the Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir insists the total was fewer than 9000. And what of competing claims over the Nanjing massacre in late 1937 and early 1938: were just a few hundred Chinese killed,as some Japanese scholars contend, or were there at least 300000 deaths, and as the Chinese authorities insist?
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Source: theguardian.com