Preliminary Statistical Analysis of Documentation of Killings in the Syrian Arab Republic. Megan Price, Jeff Klingner, and Patrick Ball. The Benetech Human Rights Program. January 2, 2013.
“this report presents findings integrated from six databases built by Syrian human rights monitors and one database collected by the Syrian government. The databases collect information about conflict-related violent deaths – killing – that have been reported in the Syrian Arab Republic between March 2011 and November 2012. Although conflict conditions make it difficult to identify an accurate record of events, governmental and non-governmental monitors are persevering in gathering information about killings through a variety of sources and venues. The purpose of the report is to explore the state of documentation, the quantitative relationship of the sources to each other, and to highlight how understanding of the conflict may be a ffected due to variations in documentation practices. This report examines only the killings that are fully identifi ed by the name of the victim, as well as the date and location of death. Reported killings that are missing any of this information were excluded from this study. This report finds that when the fully identifi ed records were combined and duplicates identified, the seven databases collected here identi fied 59,648 unique killings.”
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