Syria opposition condemns child execution

Syria's main opposition group spoke out today against the execution of a 14-year-old boy by jihadist rebels who accused him of blasphemy.
"The National Coalition condemns every act that violates the Syrian people's values and the principles of the (mainstream rebel) Free Syrian Army," the group said in a statement.
"Anyone who breaches treaties and international conventions, and commits any war crimes will stand trial, regardless of who they are."
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported the execution of Mohammad Qattaa in front of his family in the northern province of Aleppo yesterday at the hands of al-Qaeda front group, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.

"Those who executed the boy were not Syrian," said Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman.
"A member of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria spoken to by an Observatory activist said the boy deserved to die for having blasphemed", he added.

The Observatory condemned the execution as "criminal and a gift to the regime of President Bashar al-Assad".
Today, a network of citizen journalists in Aleppo distributed a video interview with the child's parents.
The boy's mother is shown wearing a white veil, wailing as she describes her loss.
"They killed him in front of me... May God take revenge on them," she said.