100,000 people could die in Syria in 2013 UN

100,000 people could die in Syria in 2013: UN

Beirut, Lebanon. - Up to 100,000 people could die next year if there is a way to quickly end the civil war in Syria, warned on Sunday the international envoy to that country.

Lakhdar Brahimi, the UN envoy to the Arab League and to the Syrian crisis, told reporters in Cairo that if the conflict continues, Syria will not be divided into different states, "as happened in Yugoslavia", but will face " Somalization, implying warlords "and the risk that" the Syrian people is pursued by those who control their destiny. "

Syrian rebels waging a 21-month revolt against the regime of President Bashar Assad. Activists say more than 40,000 people have died in the crisis, which began with a series of pro-democracy protests but that has turned into a civil war.