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pampango

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7. The findings of the United Nations and Amnesty International.
Tue Sep 17, 2013, 03:31 PM
Sep 2013
While it is clear that the vast majority of war crimes and other gross violations continue to be committed by government forces, ...

In a recent briefing, Summary Killings and other abuses by armed opposition groups, the organization documented dozens of such cases. Amnesty International has most recently documented violations by Syrian security forces and pro-government militias in the briefing, Government bombs rain on civilians, in a long line of reports highlighting targeting of civilians, arbitrary arrest, torture and other ill-treatment, enforced disappearances, extrajudicial executions and other abuses since the start of the Syrian uprising in March 2011.

http://www.amnesty.org/en/news/keep-international-pressure-against-abuses-syria-2013-03-26

At least eight massacres have been perpetrated in Syria by President Bashar Assad's regime and supporters and one by rebels over the past year and a half, a U.N. Commission of Inquiry on Syria said Wednesday.

The commission's probe highlights the worsening pattern of violence against civilians, including executions and hospital bombings, as the government battles to retake lost territory from the rebels, including Islamist foreign fighters who also have carried out war crimes.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/probe-massacres-syria-regime-rebels-20221533

Amnesty International termed it "the vast majority" of war crimes have been perpetrated by government forces. The UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria found an 8-1 ratio of "massacres" committed by government vs. the rebels.

If you have contradictory information, I would love to see it.
The armed opposition is a free for all of marauders and militias. Comrade Grumpy Sep 2013 #1
Yea, and we're arming a select group..their choice of words is interesting. n/t Jefferson23 Sep 2013 #3
Yet this collection of "marauders and militia" commit far fewer war crimes than the "professional" pampango Sep 2013 #4
They do? Based on what, exactly? Jefferson23 Sep 2013 #5
The findings of the United Nations and Amnesty International. pampango Sep 2013 #7
Your Amnesty Link is 6 months old - an eternity ago in this conflict riderinthestorm Sep 2013 #10
If you are conceding that government forces committed the "vast majority" of war crimes in the first pampango Sep 2013 #11
Don't misunderstand, Assad is clearly responsible for a great deal of planned murder. What I find Jefferson23 Sep 2013 #13
Sorry for not making myself clear. It is not a "bonus" for the Syrian people to have the brutality pampango Sep 2013 #14
I would agree, they're screwed no matter how you look at it. Yet it is more than Jefferson23 Sep 2013 #15
I suspect it's because they lack the wherewithal. Comrade Grumpy Sep 2013 #6
That may be, but the government deserves no credit for using its firepower (wherewithal) to commit pampango Sep 2013 #9
Really? WovenGems Sep 2013 #2
Again, ProSense Sep 2013 #8
If you would like a response, link the orginal OP and avoid linking to other threads Jefferson23 Sep 2013 #12
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