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Mexico was 2016's 'second most lethal conflict', says survey

The International Institute for Strategic Studies has published its annual Armed Conflict Survey.

It says the second most lethal conflict after Syria was recorded in Mexico, where more than 20,000 people were killed in violence fuelled by the nations powerful drug cartels.

Continued: http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-latin-america-39884696/mexico-2016s-second-most-lethal-conflict

Worse than Iraq and Afghanistan; odd perspective, odd if true.