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The
death toll there has doubled in a year's time, if an opposition group is right.
Since
civil war broke out there, 310,000 people have been killed, the Syrian
Observatory for Human Rights said Thursday.
A year earlier, SOHR's tally stood
at 162,402. And the year before, the United Nations put the death toll at
70,000.
Violence
has plunged well over half of all Syrians into such destitution that they are
in dire need of survival aid, the United Nations says, as food rations are being
cut for lack of donations.
Numbers
alone can't convey the immeasurable anguish of millions, but maybe it can
remind the rest of us of the magnitude of the world's currently greatest
tragedy.
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