The rebel Syrian National Council is accusing the Assad government of committing a new massacre in the village of Malikiyeh, on the outskirts of the disputed city of Aleppo, reporting that 72 people were killed by “death squads.”
Details surrounding the incident are still hazy, but the villages was reportedly the target of a government offensive on Monday, and rebels claimed they just didn’t notice the massacre, which included several burnt homes, until Thursday evening, when they announced it publicly.
The rebel Aleppo Press Centre (APC) claimed that the dead included women and children “as young as eight months” were tortured and raped before theior executions. They urged the UN to investigate the situation.
The UN has repeatedly confirmed major war crimes committed by both regime and rebels, but with the US blocking resolutions criticizing the rebels and the Russian government blocking any criticizing the regime, fearing they will be used as an excuse for war, the prospect of referring the war criminals on either side to the international courts seems remote, at best.
Every time these Israeli-American terrorists make one of these claims, it turns out to be either totally bogus, or that the terrorists committed the atrocity themselves, not the Syria government.
Every time.
Why would there be a "regime" death-squad? As Justin Raimondo wrote yesterday, these "rebels" have been caught red-handed in hoax's, so why should anything they claim without independent verification be believed? They could've easily (and likely) massacred those people (especially if they were pro-Assad) themselves to blame it on the Assad government. Afterall, why wouldn't they when the western MSM prints every claim from them as gospel.
The term "regime" is a pejorative one used in pro-Western propaganda.
It should not be used.
Syria has a regime, but Israel has a government. No one uses the term "regime" with respect to Israel – or Saudi Arabia or Bahrain etc.
The term is a way to mark the "bad guys" and AW.C should not fall for it.
Nor should the antiwar movement fall for these atrocity stories w/o verification and reportage of atrocities by both sides.
And there is no reporting from the other side, the Syrian government, a fact which alone skews the coverage. Should we not hear what it has to say – along with analysis and whether or not it is verified?
This is not to denigrate Jason's work which is excellent, but no one is perfect.