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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 12167067" data-attributes="member: 92282">Sri Lankan government  statistics put the death toll in the north of the country during the  final phase of the war at 9,000, the BBC has learned.          More than 7,000 of the deaths appear to be directly related to the military battle three years ago.         It is the first set of government figures given for  casualties, which have been the subject of heated dispute between the  government and critics.         A report commissioned by Ban Ki-Moon put the death toll at up to 40,000.         The Sri Lankan government quietly released a report by its Department of Census and Statistics over the last few days.         It contained information gathered by officials interviewing people in war-torn north of the country.          The death statistics were the most sensitive, with the report  stating that in the first five months of 2009 - the climax of the war -  about 7,400 people died of undefined or "other" causes.          This suggests that rather than natural causes, accident, homicide or suicide, the deaths were caused by the fighting.          The vast majority died in Mullaitivu district, the scene of the final bloody battles.          The figures also showed that more than 2,600 other people went missing throughout 2009.          It is not yet clear whether the figures include only  civilians or also Tamil Tiger fighters, or which side was responsible  for the deaths, but the report accords with recent Sri Lankan government  admissions that its side did kill some civilians, after first saying it  killed none.         The death toll figure is consistent with an early United  Nations estimate, but it's much lower than the estimated 40,000 deaths  given by a report commissioned by Ban Ki-Moon last year. <img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/eb/BBC.svg/50px-BBC.svg.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

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