7/16/13 UN says about 5,000 Syrians being killed every month and refugee flight worst in 20 years
UNITED NATIONS – An estimated 5,000 Syrians are dying every month in the country’s civil war and refugees are fleeing at a rate not seen since the 1994 Rwanda genocide, U.N. officials said Tuesday.
“In Syria today, serious human rights violations, war crimes and crimes against humanity are the rule,” said Ivan Simonovic, the assistant secretary-general for human rights, told the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday.
He added that “the extremely high rate of killings … demonstrates the drastic deterioration of this conflict.”
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