Darfur - the numbers game

By Russell Smith BBC News

• "Amnesty International's best estimate for how many may have died from violence since the conflict began - which took account of attacks on hundreds of villages - is 50,000."
• "The UN's emergency relief coordinator Jan Egeland has admitted the total death toll in Darfur could be much higher than the 70,000 WHO figure but says he does not know."
• "US academic Eric Reeves estimates the figure at 340,000 at the beginning of 2005."
• "UK-based Dr Jan Coebergh, who once worked in Darfur, has examined a range of aid agency health surveys. He puts the figures slightly lower at about 300,000 - but he admits it is little more than a stab in the dark."

"The US is standing by its claim that Sudan is committing genocide in the Darfur region, despite a UN report stopping short of using the term. "

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