Syria's Spray-Can Revolution

I don't think "almost as bad" is the right way to compare torture and allowing kids to help fight the torturers, but there you have it.
"In June, a United Nations special representative returned from a fact-finding trip with tales of horrific abuses against children. She relayed testimony from children who'd been tortured by the regime, or placed on tanks and used as human shields. The rebel Free Syrian Army was almost as bad, she noted in her report, frequently recruiting children to help out on the front line."