DOTO BRIEF

We have begun our work by going to the most obvious and easily accessible places: t he national English news media and prominent civil society reports. The data we currently have is neither comprehensive nor truly representative, but it does represent a collation of the most easily accessible information in one place . Our database currently has 1487 incidents in which 32419 victims are reported. You can get full details and breakup of the numbers at dotodatabase.com . As an example of the kind of numbers which can be extracted from our database, we have taken five important categories and broken them down into three sets: ide ntity of the victims (according to each incident), alleged political affiliation of the perpetrator and reported reason behind, or nature of, the violence.