You sound a little brain washed there sir.
Let me tell you, I recently Skyped my cousin there, and Syria is, "peaceful". The mass killings or w/e BS you see on TV is fueled by people out to get Syria for there resources.
I'm going to quote bbc news here, which is an IMPARTIAL (does not take sides) provider of news:
The peaceful show of dissent was, however, too much for the government and when people marched though the city after Friday prayers on 18 March, security forces opened fire, killing four people. The following day, they shot at mourners at the victims' funerals, killing another person.
Within days, the unrest in Deraa had spiralled out of the control of the local authorities. In late March, the army's fourth armoured division - commanded by the president's brother, Maher - was sent in to crush the emboldened protesters. Dozens of people were killed, as tanks shelled residential areas and troops stormed homes, rounding up those believed to have attended demonstrations.
But the crackdown failed to stop the unrest in Deraa, instead triggering anti-government protests in other towns and cities across the country, including Baniyas, Homs, Hama and the suburbs of Damascus. The army subsequently besieged them, blaming "armed gangs and terrorists" for the unrest. By mid-May, the death toll had reached 1,000.
certainly doesn't sound peaceful from that description, nor does it sound like a rebel army, although I'm sure there are rebel armies gaining from this unrest.
This is what I was quoting from:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-13855203