U.N. says Syria now in civil war, death toll hits 4,000; U.S. sanctions Assad’s uncle

[tabatha]

Syria is now in a state of civil war with more than 4,000 dead and increasing numbers of defecting soldiers taking up arms against the government of President Bashar al-Assad, the top United Nations human rights official said on Thursday as U.S. placed economic sanctions on a senior Syrian general and a financier uncle of Assad.

“We are placing the figure at 4,000, but really the reliable information coming to us is that it is much more than that,” U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay told a news conference.

“I have said that as soon as there were more and more defectors threatening to take up arms, I said this in August before the Security Council, there was going to be a civil war. At the moment that's how I am characterizing this,” she said, according to Reuters.

http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/12/01/180300.html

Revolution Statistics
Syrians killed: 4.781
Children killed: three hundred and three
Members killed: two hundred and five
Missing: + 40 000
Protestors killed under torture: one hundred and fifty
Protestors currently incarcerated: + 50000
Syrian refugees since March: + sixteen thousand five hundred and seventy-seven
Refugees in Turkey: 10,227
Refugees in Lebanon: + 4.000
Refugees in Jordan: + 2 000

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[Turbineguy]

1. Historically these sanctions

have the opposite of the intended effect.