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Caught this on BBC news today:
Darfur Deaths 'could be 300,000'
An estimated 300,000 people may have died as a result of the Darfur conflict, the UN head of humanitarian affairs John Holmes says.
That is an increase of 50% from the previous figure of 200,000 killed in the five years of fighting in the region in western Sudan.
Mr Holmes gave the revised total to a meeting of the United Nations Security Council in New York.
Sudan disputes the figure, saying 10,000 are now known to have died.
The previous figure of 200,000 came from a 2006 study by the World Health Organisation.
It included those killed in the fighting itself as well as people who died from disease and malnutrition because of the conflict.
The 2006 figure "must be much higher now - perhaps as much as half again," Mr Holmes said.
He said the new total was an extrapolation from the previous figure and was not based on a new study.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7361979.stm
Debates like this make me sort of sick. He estimates 300,000 dead and if you read the whole article, people are angered that he may be inflating the number. So...they'd be okay with only 200,000 dead?!??
Tragic times, people. Tragic times.
Darfur Deaths 'could be 300,000'
An estimated 300,000 people may have died as a result of the Darfur conflict, the UN head of humanitarian affairs John Holmes says.
That is an increase of 50% from the previous figure of 200,000 killed in the five years of fighting in the region in western Sudan.
Mr Holmes gave the revised total to a meeting of the United Nations Security Council in New York.
Sudan disputes the figure, saying 10,000 are now known to have died.
The previous figure of 200,000 came from a 2006 study by the World Health Organisation.
It included those killed in the fighting itself as well as people who died from disease and malnutrition because of the conflict.
The 2006 figure "must be much higher now - perhaps as much as half again," Mr Holmes said.
He said the new total was an extrapolation from the previous figure and was not based on a new study.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7361979.stm
Debates like this make me sort of sick. He estimates 300,000 dead and if you read the whole article, people are angered that he may be inflating the number. So...they'd be okay with only 200,000 dead?!??
Tragic times, people. Tragic times.
