http://blogs.independent.co.uk| Blogs from the Independent newspaper - news, views and features from the world's most free-thinking newspaper| Wed, 22 May 2013 14:48:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2| en hourly 1 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/31/the-%e2%80%9cfree-syrian-army%e2%80%9d-are-hardly-paragons-of-virtue-in-this-dirty-war/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/31/the-%e2%80%9cfree-syrian-army%e2%80%9d-are-hardly-paragons-of-virtue-in-this-dirty-war/#comments Fri, 31 Aug 2012 13:00:44 +0000 Emanuel Stoakes http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=28051 The narrative has, for months, been rather fixed: Bashar Al Assad’s army of brutal killers have committed massacres all over Syria in order to keep their dictator-master in power.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/31/the-%e2%80%9cfree-syrian-army%e2%80%9d-are-hardly-paragons-of-virtue-in-this-dirty-war/feed/ 36 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/20/ending-syria%e2%80%99s-torment-what-needs-to-be-done/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/20/ending-syria%e2%80%99s-torment-what-needs-to-be-done/#comments Wed, 20 Jun 2012 02:00:26 +0000 Emanuel Stoakes http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=25464 The bodies were no longer there. Nonetheless pieces of brain, pools of blood and other human remains indicated that a massacre had taken place in the village of Qubair in Syria’s brutalised Hama province. The victims likely included children, according to eyewitness reports. The outrage was preceded by acts of venality and civilian slaughter in [...]]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/20/ending-syria%e2%80%99s-torment-what-needs-to-be-done/feed/ 16