Syrian Rebels Commit War Crime by Executing Government Troops with Bullets of "Hope and Change"

A video taken on November 1st, 2012 shows captured soldiers on the ground in Saraqeb, in northern Syria, and later shows them being shot to death.

FSA are executing a group of captured government troops. Executing prisoners of war is in direct violation of the Geneva Convention.

The United Nations said on Friday that a new video from Syria circulating on the Internet that appears to show antigovernment fighters kicking and summarily executing a group of frightened captive soldiers or militiamen could, if verified, represent evidence of a war crime to prosecute the perpetrators.

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