Syria: ‘Cannibal’ rebel who ate heart defends his actions

 Beirut: A Syrian rebel who was filmed apparently cutting out and eating the organs of a regime soldier has defended his actions as revenge for regime atrocities, Time magazine reported on Tuesday.

But the gruesome video threw the spotlight on war crimes allegations against the opposition and put the mainstream rebel leadership and its backers on the defensive.

Washington said it was the act of a lone individual unrepresentative of the armed opposition as a whole but the UN human rights chief demanded an investigation into a growing number of allegations of “very serious violations by opposition fighters”.

Time said it had talked via an internet call with the fighter in the video, whom it identified as Khalid Al Hamad.  GulfNews