ISIS Executes Three Assyrian Christians, Threatens More Executions if Ransom not Paid By Patrick Poole
http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2015/10/08/isis-executes-three-assyrian-christians-threatens-more-executions-if-ransom-not-paid/?print=1
An ISIS video apparently taken several weeks ago has emerged of the terror group executing three Assyrian Christian men with bullets to the back of the head and then showing three more hostages demanding payment of $50,000 for each additional captive. There are an estimated 280+ additional Assyrian Christian hostages held by ISIS.
As each man identifies himself, he says: “I am a Nazarene (Christian).”
I reported here at PJ Media back in February of the ISIS offensive in the Khabur River valley in northeast Syria, where a number of Assyrian Christian villages were attacked. Reports at the time indicated that churches were systematically burned and hundreds of hostages taken.
An article from Al-Masdar News reports:
The Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham (ISIS) has released another a gory video in which they brutally execute three Assyrian civilians that were taken captive during their winter offensive (February 23rd) in the Khabour River region of the Al-Hasakah Governorate.
In the video, the terrorist group threatens to execute the remaining 280 captives if a ransom of $50,000 per hostage is not paid to them in the coming weeks; this monetary demand aggregates to $14 million (U.S.) in order to release the prisoners.
Following their threat, the terrorist group summarily executed the three Assyrian captives and made another threat to execute more of the hostages if their demands are not met.
The three Assyrian men that were identified in the video are Dr. ‘Abdel-Maseeh Aniyah of Tal Jazirah (Al-Hasakah), Ashur Rustam Abraham of Tal Jazirah, and Bassam Issa Michael from Tal Shamiram (Al-Jazirah).
A post on the Assyrian Democratic Organization’s Facebook page states that it believes the video was made on the morning of the first day of the Islamic festival of Eid Al-Adha – the “Feast of Sacrifice” — when Muslims all over the world ritually slaughter animals.
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