A Year Later, HRW Admits Syrian Rebels Guilty of Atrocities
Kidnapping, Torture, & Murder of Civilians by Syrian Opposition Confirmed.
by Tony Cartalucci
March 20, 2012 – Human Right Watch (HRW), just as it did in Libya, waited until the very last possible moment to admit what the alternative media had been reporting for over a year – that Syria’s rebels are craven, torturing, kidnapping, murdering terrorists committing widespread and systematic atrocities not only against security forces, but against anyone suspected of supporting the Syrian government as well as randomly targeted civilians.
Image: Human Rights Watch knew all along that Syria’s opposition was armed and conducting a systematic campaign of kidnapping, torture, and mass murder but waited until the last possible moment to acknowledge it. As we can see, HRW is funded by George Soros’ Open Society as well as a myriad of corporate-funded foundations all disingenuously leveraging the cause of human rights to carry out their agenda of achieving global corporate-financial hegemony. (click on image to enlarge)
The HRW report titled, “Syria: Armed Opposition Groups Committing Abuses,” is broken into three parts, kidnapping, torture, and executions. And while the report attempts to focus mainly on atrocities carried out against security forces and government supporters, the mention of civilian victims is made as well. The report states:
“Abuses include kidnapping, detention, and torture of security force members, government supporters, and people identified as members of pro-government militias, called shabeeha. Human Rights Watch has also received reports of executions by armed opposition groups of security force members and civilians.”
Under the title “Kidnappings,” it is stated:
“Abuses include kidnapping, detention, and torture of security force members, government supporters, and people identified as members of pro-government militias, called shabeeha. Human Rights Watch has also received reports of executions by armed opposition groups of security force members and civilians.”
“Human Rights Watch also expressed concern about FSA [Free Syrian Army] kidnappings of Iranian nationals, some of whom the group has confirmed are civilians.”
Under “Executions,” HRW’s report describes the Syrian opposition’s practice of rounding up suspects and killing them without trial, generally on the grounds of confessions coerced through torture. Other executions are simply carried out as reprisals with no apparent offense beyond suspected affiliations being cited.
The report indicates that Syria’s opposition, like the NATO-backed rebels in Libya, are lawless, unprincipled, sectarian, extremists. They are far from “democracy activists” or “unarmed, helpless civilians,” and very far from being “victims” of a disproportionate use of force. From the very beginning of Syria’s unrest, the alternative media has covered what was systematic violence used by the opposition, from vandalism and arson, to sniper and bomb attacks and now full-blown armed insurrection. It is clear now, as even the Wall Street-London combine must admit, Syria’s opposition has been countered by Syrian security forces out of the necessity to restore order, not silence legitimate political dissent.
News of the HRW report has been muted, with most corporate-media outlets electing to downplay, spin, or obfuscate the true implications of the war crimes being carried out by Syria’s opposition. The implications are that NATO, led by the US, UK, France, and Turkey, as well as their proxy “Arab League,” have been backing torturers, kidnappers, and mass murderers. This should come as no surprise as it is confirmed members of Libya’s Al Qaeda affiliate, the NATO-backed Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, are now literally leading the so-called Free Syrian Army (FSA).
With the Syrian opposition turning to car bombs and targeting populated city centers claiming scores of civilian lives, it is now clear that the West is also backing a terrorist campaign as well. Syria’s government could not in good conscience withdraw troops from areas the terrorist opposition is operating in, especially now that it is confirmed this opposition is kidnapping, torturing and arbitrarily killing civilians.
To an international community that has defended, even facilitated such thuggery for now over a year, they are the least qualified to propose any further meddling or “solution” to the ongoing unrest. This includes Kofi Annan’s dubious “peace” mission which has been recently exposed as a ploy to rehabilitate Western-back militants for a second round of violence.
PN 
You write about the “myriad of corporate-funded foundations all disingenuously leveraging the cause of human rights to carry out their agenda of achieving global corporate-financial hegemony.” I agree 100% that this is the new playing field in foreign affairs.
But I think you should lose the honorable word ‘opposition’ when referring to a group looking very much like a bunch of NATO-backed Arab outsiders and heavily armed soldiers of fortune who are literally invading Syria and randomly sniping and killing Syrians of all political, ethnic and religious backgrounds.
Real patriots don’t operate in that fashion. And professional armies and security forces don’t operate in that fashion. This Syrian crisis is created by ‘outside agitation’ at its purest and most deadly – paid for by Saudis, Qataris, and NATO interests (in my opinion). And the western media is complicit in the amount of fabricated or unsubstantiated imagery they send up the flagpole in the name of a non-existent ‘peaceful opposition’
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March 25, 2012 at 6:18 PM
You write “You write” but, well, I didn’t write this. Feel free to email the author. His email is at the bottom of his website:
http://landdestroyer.blogspot.ca/2012/03/year-later-hrw-admits-syrian-rebels.html
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March 25, 2012 at 6:37 PM
Sorry I missed the link. I’ve been away a week. I found the original only after leaving the comment. Cartalucci is primetime – in my opinion.
So you are content to side-step my little rant and have no counter opinion? How do you view the Syrian ‘opposition’? I think there are groups operating as ‘Free Syrian Army’ that are actually quite free of any real Syrian element. We should be calling it the Syrian-free Army.
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March 25, 2012 at 9:03 PM
“Sorry I missed the link. I’ve been away a week. I found the original only after leaving the comment.”
That’s not a problem for me. You do not have to be sorry.
“So you are content to side-step my little rant and have no counter opinion? ”
Did it occur to you that I might be a busy man? I priorities some things over others, in my life and throughout my day.
You want my opinion that badly? I’m going to risk sounding like a dick and say that I think you’re splitting hairs, to be honest.
I mean I see what you’re saying. But I think a more important problem is that nobody cares to look in the first place, at anything – nobody cares about ANYTHING. We can be as sophisticated as we want with our language and choice of words but communication is a two-way street and how many people are even going to read that article above at all vs watch something like …i don’t even know…. a dog riding a ski-do or something? I hope I don’t sound like a defeatist.
I have family there and I’m grateful that Tony Cartalluci is covering this the way he is. It should be obvious to people, by now, that the opposition is foreign backed and that there are “groups operating as ‘Free Syrian Army’ that are actually quite free of any real Syrian element”. Unless I’m missing something, am too tired, or the Morgellons induced brain-fog has gotten the best of me, it seems to me that the author would probably agree with you, and I more or less agree with you, but if you feel that passionate about this why don’t you write an article or report on the subject?
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March 25, 2012 at 10:30 PM
OK I’m done here.
I only got my own head out of the sand about a month ago – didn’t mean to appear to be lecturing, please hear the frustration in my voice too.
You’re doing good work with this blog and I appreciate it.
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March 26, 2012 at 2:04 AM
No worries. I appreciate your enthusiasm. Keep spreading the word and hopefully we’ll put this rampaging empire in its place.
Your feedback is appreciated as well. It’s good to know that Potent News is gaining steam!
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March 26, 2012 at 4:24 AM