Graphic content: Rebels behead Assad's thugs in front of children

These are some of themost brutal scenes to emerge from Syria's civil war. Rebels photographed beheading men loyal to the country's president, right in front of children. UK Daily Mail reports
The sword rests briefly on his neck as a blindfolded man kneels under a clear blue sky.Moments later, the executioner raises his right arm, slashes downwards and the prisoner is dead.The whole barbaric episode is watched by a crowd of jeering men, many of them armed.And sitting on a low wall only a few feet from where the wretched captive died so violently is a line of young boys.
They were still there as the dead man's head was dumped on his body. Another child, even younger, was led by the hand past the corpse.Warning: Graphic content.