'Free Syrian Army our Choice', Hashtag to support rebels

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian social media activists to launch a new campaign on October 20 in solidarity with moderate rebel group, Free Syrian Army, in an indication that radical Islamist groups cannot be Syrian savior, according to Twitter feeds.

Syrian Media Commission, pro-opposition group, called on all cyber activists, political and media associations to interact with an Arabic Hashtag saying, “Free Syrian Army our Choice”, to reciprocate some of FSA sacrifices since the Syrian revolution erupted in March 2011.

The 4-day campaign which will start on October 20, the commission said.

Activists said the deviation in the path of the revolution reached momentum when the extremist militant group, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, had controlled swathes of territory in Syria and neighboring Iraq and started to suppress Syrian people, saturated by radical agendas.

ISIS have shot, beheaded and crucified 3473 people, mostly Syrians, since the group appeared in Syria in 2013, Syrian Network for Human Rights said in report last August.

According to the latest documented report 2691 of killings were from Free Syrian Army, Islamic battalions, Syrian regime army and Kurdish troops, besides 782 civilians, including 138 children and 139 women.

The Islamic State's campaign of extreme violence and abuses against both civilians and rival opposition groups has prompted a backlash across rebel-held Syria, where many hope the US air campaign next door will be extended, according to AFP.

The U.N. says more than 190,000 people have been killed since the start of Syria's uprising against President Bashar Assad in March 2011.

(Writing by Jamal Ibrahim)