Sunday, April 19, 2015

ISIS group on Sunday released a video purporting to show the executions of some 30 Ethiopian Christians captured in Libya

The men are held at the neck and forced to kneel by fighters in combats with balaclavas covering their faces
The men are held at the neck and forced to kneel by fighters in combats with balaclavas covering their faces

A screenshot from the video.
The footage also shows around 12 men being shot in a desert area, believed to be in the south of the country

A video released by the Islamic State group on Sunday appears to show the killing of two different groups of captured Ethiopian Christians by the extremist group's Libyan affiliates.
The 29-minute online video purports to show militants holding two groups of captives. It says one group is held by an Islamic State affiliate in eastern Libya known as Barka Province and the other by an affiliate in the south calling itself the Fazzan Province.
A masked fighter brandishing a pistol delivers a long statement, saying Christians must convert to Islam or pay a special tax prescribed by the Quran.
The video then switches between footage of the captives in the south being shot dead and the captives in the east being beheaded on a beach.
It was not immediately clear who the captives were or when they were captured. It was also not clear how many captives were killed.
The video bore the official logo of the Islamic State media arm Al-Furqan and resembled previous videos released by the extremist group, including one in February in which Islamic State militants in Libya beheaded 21 captured Egyptian Christians on a beach.
The Islamic State group has been able to gain a foothold amid the chaos in Libya, where two governments backed by rival alliances of militias are battling each other as well as extremist groups.
The Islamic State group is also advancing in Iraq, where the extremists captured three villages near the city of Ramadi in the western Anbar province and were locked in heavy clashes with Iraqi troops.
More than 90,000 people have fled the Islamic State group's advance in Anbar, a United Nations humanitarian agency said Sunday.
The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said in a statement that civilians are fleeing Ramadi as well as the three nearby villages captured by the Islamic State group a few days ago. It said humanitarian agencies have moved quickly to provide assistance, including food, water and shelter.
"Our top priority is delivering life-saving assistance to people who are fleeing -- food, water and shelter are highest on the list of priorities," said Lise Grande, the UN humanitarian coordinator for Iraq.
Grande expressed concern over the safety of the displaced people, who are mainly heading to Baghdad and the IS-held city of Fallujah.
"Seeing people carrying what little they can and rushing for safety is heart-breaking," she added.
Iraqi officials in Anbar have described Ramadi as a ghost town, with empty streets and closed shops.
Iraqi troops backed by Shiite militias and U.S.-led airstrikes managed to dislodge the IS group from the northern city of Tikrit earlier this month.
But the troops have struggled against the militants in Anbar, which saw some of the heaviest fighting of the eight-year U.S. military intervention that ended in 2011.

Source:haaretz.com



ISIS group on Sunday released a video purporting to show the executions of some 30 Ethiopian Christians captured in Libya.

In the footage released online, one group of about 12 men are seen being beheaded by militants on a beach and another group of at least 16 being shot in the head in a desert area.
Text on the screen identifies the men as "followers of the cross from the enemy Ethiopian Church".

One group of about 12 men are seen being beheaded by militants on a beach
In February, ISIS militants released a video of the murders of 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians also in Libya.
The kidnapped migrant workers were seen allegedly beheaded by ISIS in the propaganda video.
ISIS had claimed that the men had been captured to avenge what they say is the kidnapping of Muslim women by the Egyptian Coptic Church.




Source: http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/2015/04/19/ISIS-executes-Ethiopia-Christians-in-Libya-.html


ISIS has released a near 30-minute video showing the executions of people purported to be Ethiopian Christians in two different regions in Libya. The video, in English, was released by the Islamic State’s official propaganda wing, and opens with a call for ISIS supporters to target Christians. ISIS fighters are seen destroying art inside churches, bell towers and symbols.
One set of captives was beheaded in an area the group calls Barqa Province, alongside the Mediteranean believed to be Derna, Libya. It is the same place the group is believed to have killed 21 Egyptian Christians in February, beheading them on the beach. Egypt responded with air strikes in Libya, and Derna was reported to have been one of the targets. The other group of captives were shot dead in a southern part of the country, Fazzan Province, by a group also claiming loyalty to ISIS.
Christians are told in the video they can live peacefully in the Islamic State if they accept Sharia law and agree to pay a special tax to their Islamic rulers. The video ends with a masked man standing with a group of armed men, saying the Christians were in killed “revenge for Muslim blood spilled by Christians.”

Source: http://www.vocativ.com/world/isis-2/isis-video-shows-mass-beheading-of-ethiopian-christians-in-libya/

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