One of the most fascinating conflicts i've witnessed in my lifetime regarding world news has been the clusterf%ck of violence taking place in Syria for the past year and a half.
While i get no pleasure out of seeing innocent children and civilians in general bleeding out on the street due to a reckless bullet or mortar, it's the conflict itself that keeps my interest and also keeps me scratching my head.
When it started off, news outlets across the globe showed protestors coming under an increasingly heavy hand from Assad's security forces and feared militias.
The portrait of an evil dictator had been painted at that point for good reason, and the 'let's get rid of Assad' idea was welcomed by the masses.
Since those early days in which peaceful protestors were being imprisoned and killed, opposition to Assad has come together to form the Free Syrian Army (FSA).
It was a pretty homegrown movement in the beginning, but it has since snowballed into a religious driven murderous mob for the most part these days.
The rebels are backed by the U.S and other Western powers when it comes to finances and non-lethal equipment, but are more importantly backed by seasoned jihadists who are on the ground carrying out atrocities that rival and go beyond those of the Assad regime.
This latest video is disgusting to say the least.
An unarmed prisoner is seen on the ground next to FSA members. His fate is pretty obvious at that point.
What wasn't expected however is the manner in which he would die.
A young boy with a machete is used for the execution shown in the video below.
After a couple of whacks at the man's neck, the clip kind of skips to the rebels placing the man's severed head on his back.
Stories like this are often suppressed by the mainstream because they go against whatever agenda we have for Syria post-Assad, but with the rising footage of blatant war crimes by FSA and Al Qaeda linked groups,, it's becoming harder and harder to keep the public uninformed.
The video below is graphic and sick, pretty much the two words best used to describe what's happened in Syria since March 2011.
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