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Highest Syrian authorities complicit in killings - UN says
Feb 13, 2012, 16:40 GMT
New York - The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights said Monday that the onslaught in Syria has continued with the complicity of government authorities 'at the highest level.'
Navi Pillay told a special session of the UN General Assembly in New York that crimes against humanity have been committed over the past 11 months of unrest. She said her office in Geneva had stopped counting the dead because of lack of access to Syria.
Pillay said more than 5,400 people had been killed by December and more than 10,000 people have been injured while an estimated 18,000 people have been detained.
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