In less than a week, the media outlets and social communication websites became flooded with footage showing armed men, who say they belong to the armed Syrian opposition, committing what rises to the level of war crimes. The most famous clip, which found many to circulate it, especially among the enemies of the revolution, is the one showing an armed man removing an organ from a corpse believed to belong to a soldier in the Syrian regular army, and taking a bite out of it. There were also two other incidents, i.e. the execution of men accused of supporting the regime in Rakka and the Deir Ezzor countryside at the hands of armed elements who said they belonged to Al-Nusra Front in retaliation for the civilians who fell in the Bayda and Banias massacres, and the shooting in the head of blindfolded men on public squares - amid a stunned or curious crowd - by masked men wearing short Pakistani pants and raising the flags of Al-Qaeda organization. The exploitation of these horrific acts by the regime and its followers is quite natural, as there is nothing simpler than taking advantage of the favor offered to you by your enemy to confirm all your accusations and presumptions, thus ruining their own image, goals and political and ideological backgrounds on your behalf. But the issue does not reside in individual violations or isolated cases, considering that similar incidents have been taking place at an escalating rate. And since the execution of the twenty regular army soldiers in Aleppo a few days after the opposition fighters entered it, the announcement by Al-Nusra Front of its responsibility for a number of explosions in which most of the victims were civilians, and the spread of theft and pillaging in the areas controlled by the opposition, the situation appeared to extend beyond the incidents perpetrated by parasites that usually accompany the revolutions. This is confirmed by the kidnapping of the two bishops and the labyrinths seen at the level of the detention of the nine Lebanese pilgrims in Aazaz. One must say that the revolution's inability to achieve victory with its own resources opened the door before the intervention of countless intelligence apparatuses, representatives of states, and sides that are all trying to maintain the status quo until the elucidation of the settlements between the regional and international powers enjoying interests in Syria. These forces know that the freezing of the situation politically and on the field inevitably means the revolution's fall in a rut and stalemate, which consequently leads to the growth of parasites inside and around it and the emergence of armed criminal acts. They also know that the price for that will firstly be paid by the Syrian citizens, who will start to wonder about the purpose of the uprising against the Al-Assad family regime if the alternative is not any better, and by the revolution secondly as a project for drastic change, considering that it will be surrendered to the powers capable of influencing its courses. Despite all the Iranian and Russian support offered to Bashar al-Assad, the fact that the opposition – whether domestically or abroad – was unable to overcome its dangerous political and military division and agree over one headline extending beyond the toppling of the existing regime after more than two years, is neither a simple nor a marginal detail. And it is also not a simple issue that the opposition, regardless of the banner under which it is operating, has failed to manage the regions that fell under its control at a hefty human price, is powerless in the face of the criminal gangs and the advancement of those wearing short pants, and is ignoring the mounting sectarian tone under the pretext that it is a natural response to a similar discourse adopted by the followers of the regime. The terrifying video clips are the tip of the iceberg of practices that have seriously started to threaten the Syrian revolution, in parallel to the retreat of the positive attributes of the free Syrian people.
