They tried to keep it as reliable as possible because they knew they will be scrutinized for every single death reported that was not backed up with some data. Of course, the aggressor could care less if the deaths are by a bullet, a bomb or any of the myriad causes of death in a scenario like this... So they focus on committing the nearly impossible to document deaths from diseases, societal breakdown, famine, etc.　But you know who knows accurately how many people had died? The one that is daily calculating the bare minimum of calories to keep famine at the edge... just to have it a little bit unleashed, just a bit.

The brainstorming and calculations that must be taken in secretive rooms by a handful on how to inflict and endure physical and psychological terminal damage without creating too much blatant piles of visible deaths for cameras must be out of this world! However, they are probably the most surprised of all on how much that could get away with and wonder if now, in a hot summer, they can add massive dehydration to the list of causes of deaths, after all, dehydrated bodies will sure won't be so reminiscent to the ones seen in concentration camps in the 1940s. I am ashamed of virtually all the institutions we have built across the globe that keeps silent, when not complicit... or even instigators to this!