In 60 Seconds: 151,233 people killed since december 2006

  • 9 years ago
The U.N. high commissioner for human rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein said that from december 2006 to august of this year more than 151 thousand people have been killed in Mexico. Tense scenes were reported near a nicaraguan gold mine run by a canadian company as police attempted to remove union workers. Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos and FARC rebel leader Rodrigo Londoño aka Timochenko have been mentioned as potential nobel peace prize winners to be announced friday. Syria's military launched a massive offensive in the western region of the country in a bid to take back towns and village besieged by the islamic state group siege. In Yemen, the civilian death toll continues to grow.