Amnesty: Syrian armed groups committing war crimes

[DemMomma4Sanders]

Source: Al Jazeera

Amnesty International, a UK-based rights group, said on Tuesday that al-Nusra Front, Ahrar al-Sham, Nureddin Zinki, the Levant Front and Division 16 were committing "war crimes and other violations of international humanitarian law with impunity.

"Many civilians live in constant fear of being abducted if they criticise the conduct of armed groups in power or fail to abide by the strict rules that some have imposed," said Philip Luther, Amnesty's director of the Middle East and North Africa Programme.

The report was based on interviews with about 70 individuals living or working in the northern provinces of Idlib and parts of Aleppo, areas controlled by rebels.


The abuses were committed over four years by five armed groups, including some backed by the US and other regional powers, Amnesty said.

Read more: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/07/amnesty-syria-armed-groups-committing-war-crimes-160705045105228.html

[uawchild]

1. Thank you

The reluctance of our media to look at the actions of these rebel groups, especially ones we the US fund, is a total failure of journalistic integrity and also a huge moral failure. If it's not about Assad or Russia, the killings and abuse get a hand wave, at best, from our media. It's almost like they don't want us to know about the horrors being committed in our name.