{"id":37945,"date":"2013-10-12T09:25:01","date_gmt":"2013-10-12T13:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=37945"},"modified":"2013-10-12T12:13:26","modified_gmt":"2013-10-12T16:13:26","slug":"war-crimes-its-not-just-for-the-assad-regime-any-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37945","title":{"rendered":"War Crimes: They’re Not Just for the Assad Regime Any More"},"content":{"rendered":"

We keep hearing about all those \u201cwar crimes\u201d on the part of the Assad regime.\u00a0 Many of them may well be legitimate.<\/p>\n

I’d long suspected that the Syrian opposition might not exactly be clean on that score.\u00a0 But as far as I know no one has come out and accused the Syrian opposition of war crimes.<\/p>\n

Until now, that is.\u00a0 Human Rights Watch has now come out and flatly accused elements of the Syrian opposition of committing atrocities against unarmed civilians<\/a> that indeed qualify as war crimes.\u00a0 Their report is 105 pages in length, and details attacks against unarmed civilians in a dozen predominately Alawite villages in Latika village on\/about 4 Aug of this year.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re not talking a handful of people killed in a few isolated incidents, either.\u00a0 Human Rights Watch documents at least 190 people killed and 200 taken prisoner.\u00a0 It also appears that around 100 are being held hostage as bargaining chips for the return of captured Syrian resistance members held by the Assad regime.<\/p>\n

The perpetrators were identified as 5 groups within the Syrian resistance that have ties to Islamic fundamentalism and\/or al Qaeda.\u00a0 Color me shocked.<\/p>\n

The Free Syrian Army has disavowed the actions of the 5 groups who committed these atrocities, with their spokesman stating that, “Anyone who commits such crimes will not belong to the revolution anymore.”<\/p>\n

Yeah, right.\u00a0 I think I\u2019ll wait until we see some proof before I accept that little statement.\u00a0 I seem to remember a saying popular in that part of the world that starts out:\u00a0 \u201cThe enemy of my enemy . . . .\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve said it before, and I\u2019ll say it again:\u00a0 tell me again why we\u2019re supporting either<\/span><\/i> side in that damn civil war?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We keep hearing about all those \u201cwar crimes\u201d on the part of the Assad regime.\u00a0 Many … War Crimes: They’re Not Just for the Assad Regime Any More<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,84,223],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-policy","category-military-issues","category-syria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}