The rebel militias fighting to topple the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad face a growing list of accusations of executions, murder, and war crimes, but aid and support from the US and its allies continues to flow.
The accusations have increased ever since a video appeared online showing the apparent aftermath of a mass slaughter of pro-Assad fighters who were killed execution-style after being captured by the Free Syrian Army. An eyewitness account from a Turkish reporter confirmed the event, which Human Rights Watch called an apparent “war crime.”
The men “were forced into a building, then brought before a court of the Free Syrian Army on the back of a pickup truck, after which they were lined up and shot at lightning speed,” the Turkish reporter wrote.
And this does not appear to be an isolated incident. “A McClatchy reporter traveling with a unit of the Free Syrian Army was told that rebels had captured about 45 Assad loyalists in fighting in Al Tal, north of Damascus. Asked later what had become of the prisoners, a rebel said eight had been executed, 25 had been released and the rest were being held in hopes of a future prisoner exchange,” reports McClatchy news.
A string of media reports have uncovered similar stories of both extra-judicial executions and torture. Almost three months ago, a United Nations investigation found that both Syrian government forces and rebel militias trying to topple President Bashar al-Assad committed serious human rights abuses.
“We strongly condemn summary executions by either side in Syria. We condemn actions like that,” White House Press Secretary Jay Carney told reporters this week. The Obama administration doesn’t seem to be shying away from their support of the rebels, though.
The increase in rebel crimes has increased in tandem with expanded US support as well as the increased infiltration of al-Qaeda and other Sunni extremists.
The CIA is supposedly employing a “vetting process” to avoid having the aid get into the hands of Islamic extremists, but the process is made up of untrustworthy, third-party sources and intelligence officials have recently told the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times that the truth is that the US doesn’t know who is getting the money and weapons.
Apparently, even arming and strengthening al-Qaeda isn’t enough to disrupt Washington’s plan to change the regime in Syria, in order to eliminate Iran’s main ally in the Middle East and to gain an even stronger foothold in the region.
But extremist infiltration of the Syrian opposition carries other problems. The Obama administration runs the risk of helping to bring these extremists to power if and when the Assad regime finally does collapse. Moreover, as happened in Afghanistan after the US proxy war there with the mujihadeens, the potential for deadly blowback is very real.
US and EU have no other alternatives but to support such terrorism, US and EU have no other alternative but to support such barbarians as these people are, so what do you expect for US and EU a non democratic governments and systems to do.., to help Assad wanting him to implement more into the Syrian constitutions democratizing more of Syrian system of government…, if that was the case then US and EU regimes would be a democracy and not going or starting any wars, but because such matter in practical terms, in terms of a social justice, in terms of an economical justice, in terms of respect for democracy and its principals doesn’t exist.., then there is no other alternative.., so they turn to what is by Bush regime called, "the enemy of my enemy is my friend", and thats what you get, an enemy of people who is the friend of US and EU hegemony in the region and rest of the world. An enemy which is used when is needed, an enemy who have become powerful to demand as they do in Syria and in Afghanistan, an enemy who US and EU need to discuss peace with, an enemy that is no longer an enemy but a real threat to world peace.
If you know the history of Afghanistan, then you should know that there was a democracy existed before, if you know the history of Pakistan there was a democracy, if you know the history of Iran there was a democracy and so on.., now because of US and English foreign policy – stupidity the people of middle east have to suffer more, because once again these militarism regimes want to change a regime that is about the Syrian people, working for Syrian people and they want to replace it with these bandits from Saudi Arabia and UAE, the left over war criminals from Iraq war and Afghanistan, the street intellectual from Paris, London and WDC.
Another poorly written post by an uninformed follower of Anti-Truth.
Yes, wouldn't you just love Assad to babysit your kids – they could bath in their own blood….
You are another of those street intellectuals whom is paid by the Saudis thinking that your cause is about democracy, not realizing that your idea of democracy is purchased back in 2000 and sealed by your masters in UAE and Saudis dictatorial regimes. You as any other of these street intellectuals are not less worthy then Ahmad Chalabi the thieve of Jordan, you are no less then muslims brotherhood the illegitimate son of US and EU terrorism nor their affiliated al queada or for that matter Saudis Wahhabis “democracy”, so more you open your mouth less of the world people would believe you. Sometimes I wonder, where the hell you people get your social "political educations", which street university is out there providing you people with such diploma of idiocy.
Then again, if my writing was poorly done then you wouldn’t answer it, that alone shows how I preserve the right of Syrian people not to agree with such people like you.
How can you expect anything different form the so called civilized world? They have long ago lost the moral high ground. Some of their despicable deeds:
Establish and unconditionally support to this date parasitic state in the middle east.
Support most of the dictatorships in the world now.
Topple democratically elected governments
Attack states that did not threaten them and kill millions.
Practice and approve torture
And many more I have no space to mention here.
Now tell me, what do you expect form these people again?
I really have to wonder whether the world would have been better today if the Nazis had prevailed in Europe.
So we've been lied to and robbed for trillions this past decade over the excuse that Al-Qaeda was this big boogey-man out to get us while it oh-so conveniently appears at our beck and call? Yeahhhh… Riiiiighhhhhhht.