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The UN has decided it is too much trouble to count the number of Syrian dead. It is stopping at 100,000 from last July. NGOs in Syria put the death toll at least 30,000 higher than the UN will now admit. Apparently, for the UN,'don't know' is good enough.
"The UN's human rights office has stopped updating the death toll from Syria's civil war, confirming Tuesday that it can no longer verify the sources of information that led to its last count of at least 100,000 in late July. Rupert Colville, a spokesman for the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, blamed the failure to provide new figures on the organization's own lack of access on the ground in Syria and its inability to verify 'source material' from others...Colville said the UN could not endorse anyone else's count, including the widely quoted figures from the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, whose latest tally is more than 130,000 killed in violence in Syria since March 2011."