(cnn)syria is a hell on earth that is expanding in plain sight 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 the number of years since perpetual bloodshed began, since dictator bashar al assad's security forces fired on crowds of demonstrators and armed militant groups rose up against him in march 2011 percentage of the syrian population killed it would be like killing 3 to 4 million americans the range comes from the sohr's death toll of 310,000 and a recent lower estimate by the un of at least 220,000 dead the number of syrians in need of immediate life saving aid, according to the un  that's the population of moscow syrians driven from their homes, the un says imagine the entire boston metropolitan area emptied out syrians who have fled as refugees to neighboring countries, creating humanitarian and economic hardship across syria's borders turkey has taken in 17 million, lebanon 12 million, jordan 625,000, and iraq 245,000 the reduction in the size of food rations the world food programme says it has been forced to make due to a lack of donations that means people receiving aid will get only 60% of the daily nutrition they need
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