Despite a narrative of Syria’s rebellion being an extension of pro-democracy protests in 2011, UN human rights investigators say that the rebel forces are increasingly made up of foreign fighters with a sectarian agenda.
A report by the UN says that rebel fighters have come from 29 countries, and are overwhelmingly Sunnis flocking to the nation to fight against the Alawite President Bashar Assad.
As the fighting gets more sectarian in nature, it has encouraged more religious fighters from abroad, and as those fighters arrive, they fuel the sectarian tensions all the more, a dangerous cycle that seems likely to just keep getting worse.
The shift has been readily apparent to those watching, as the rebel leadership has gone from overwhelmingly military defectors to a collection of Islamist clerics and Muslim Brotherhood activists calling the shots in a matter of months, and groups with open endorsements from al-Qaeda like the al-Nusra Front taking center stage in major offensives.
I would love to get a link to the actual report, if anyone can find it.
it's not out yet, i looked and the article said it will be coming out in march i believe.
… after the war … if at all ….
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=4382…
Supposedly the report is 20 pages long..
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=4383…
" “I am deeply concerned that entire communities risk paying the price for crimes committed by the Syrian Government,” the UN Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, Adama Dieng, said in a statement issued on Thursday night.
“As the situation in Syria deteriorates further, there is a growing risk that civilian communities, including Alawite and other minorities perceived to be associated with the Government, its security forces, militias and allies could be subject to large scale reprisal attacks,” he added.
Here is the scariest part:
"Noting that the Syrian Government is “manifestly failing to protect its populations,” the Special Adviser said the international community must act on the commitment made by leaders at the 2005 World Summit to protect populations from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity, including their incitement. "
It seems that the invasion is imminent
Alsad has agreed to step back and allow Syria to have electons , but the rebels don't seem to want electons , they seem to think they can bring freedom and democracy by kiling more policemen right now . Russia claims the fighting would stop if the United States would stop sending arms to the terrorsts .
correction: if the United States would stop sending terrorists, money and arms and providings command&control – using its saudi/qatari/afghan proxies
First of all Assad never planed to step down or back, Assad said
When his family took over Syria its population were only four
Million or so, I'm not sure of the exact number but any how he
Said that he won't leave Syria tell Syria's population are the same
As when his family took over, besides Gaddafi of Libya have you
Ever heard of a president bombing his people with fighter planes
Accept the mad man Bashar, did you hear or watch the news to
Day, people standing on bread line bombed by Syrian fighter
Plane and over ninety people were killed and the numbers will
Go up more likely over two hundred, at one time I use to like
This guy but after seeing his criminal behavior I hate his guts
And I wish him the same death as Gaddafi.
after nearly two years antiwar brings this headline of foreign figthers, other media which they did censor, have had from the beginning. And still it is manipulated by using the modus "increasingly made up of foreign fighters" – because 99 percent foreign fighters is more than 95 percent. A really great antiwar website …
the report is out: http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Countries/SY/ColSy…
btw, I read it and didn't see anything about the 29 different countries, so maybe you should edit this otherwise accurate piece.