Where are the top criminals among them who committed aggression?!
If the start of prosecuting the former Mufti Sheikh Ahmad Badr al-Din Adeeb is taken to imply that “the government holds everyone accountable without sectarian distinction,” as some have promoted, then where are the trials for senior Sunni officers who were an integral part of the corruption and repression apparatus during the eras of the two Assads, and who contributed to protecting the regime with the blood of innocents? Or is their turn yet to come?
Tell us, where are they, or have they simply vanished?!
And have their names been confined and judicial warrants issued for them wherever they are?!

Is it conceivable that a Sunni religious leader—may God not pardon him and his ilk—is taken as a witness to enforce justice (in our publications), while we see no trace of trials for former Sunni officers who committed countless crimes and caused national disasters no less than other partners of power and tyranny (in reality)?!

I do not diminish here the importance of those trials, nor the stature of the honorable court, nor the dignity of its judges, but I want to emphasize to our readers that we are not fooled by loud posts, flashy texts, or mixing the trivial with the important, or the less important with the most important!
In trying murderers, their religion does not matter but their conduct, and there is no difference to me between an Alawite killer or a Sunni killer if they are equal in crime and bloodshed.

In short: The problem was never the “sect of the criminal killer,” but the Assad regime’s structure that invested in everyone, deliberately distributing corruption and ruin among all segments of the Syrian people.

No doubt those trials have “symbolism,” but justice is indivisible, and accountability must begin from the top—not from those left abandoned on the margins of the regime when it discarded them.