Human Rights Watch wrote the Syrian National Council and other opposition groups on 20 March an open letter. From it I quote:
While the protest movement in Syria was overwhelmingly peaceful until
September 2011, since then Human Rights Watch has documented apparent
crimes and other abuses committed by armed opposition elements. These
crimes and abuses include the kidnapping and detention of security force
members, individuals identified as members of government-supported
militias (referred to locally as shabeeha), and individuals identified as government allies or supporters.
They also include the use of torture and the execution of security
force members and civilians. Some of the attacks targeting Shias and
Alawites appear to be motivated by sectarianism. (emphasis added by me)
Following the creation of the SNC Military Bureau on March 1, 2012, to
liaise with, unify, and supervise armed opposition groups including the
Free Syrian Army (FSA), Human Rights Watch calls on the Bureau to
condemn and forbid these abuses in order to achieve its objective of
ensuring members of the armed opposition comply with international
humanitarian law and to meet its human rights obligations. Human Rights
Watch also calls on members of the armed opposition that are not under
the operational command of the SNC to desist from committing these
rights abuses.
Human Rights watch gives a few examples. One of them is is a vido of the hanging of what appears to be a member of the shabeeha on 22 January by the Kfar Takharim battalion of the Free Syrian Army. .
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