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ISIS Executes Ethiopians in Libya

Tuesday, April 21, 2015

An ISIS affiliate in Libya has released another beheading video, this time of Ethiopian Christians in the North African country. The ISIS affiliates are reported to have executed two groups of prisoners, confirmed as being Ethiopian citizens by the Ethiopian government.

The video shows two groups of men, one in orange jumpsuits and the other in black, being killed at different locations in Libya, according to the narrator of the video. One group is beheaded on a beach along the Mediterranean Sea, while the other group is shot in southern Libya, hundreds of miles away.

In February, ISIS released a video of 21 Coptic Christians from Egypt being executed on a Libyan beach. Those captives also wore orange jumpsuits.

In that video, released by al-Hayat Media Center, another ISIS media arm, a masked man references the killing of Osama bin Laden and his burial at sea.

“The sea you have hidden Sheikh Osama bin Laden’s body in, we swear to Allah, we will mix it with your blood,” he threatens in English


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