SHAFAQNA – The ISIL claims to have beheaded Japanese freelance journalist Kenji Goto held captive by the Takfiri group.
The group released a video on Saturday purportedly showing Goto’s decapitation.
The footage shows Goto kneeling, dressed in an orange outfit. A masked man standing beside him with a knife blames the Japanese government for his “slaughter.”
It ends with a still photo of the body with the head resting on the back.
The executioner speaks directly to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, saying, “Because of your reckless decision to take part in an unwinnable war, this knife will not only slaughter Kenji, but will also carry on and cause carnage wherever your people are found. So let the nightmare for Japan begin.”
In a recent video posted online, ISIL militants showed the Japanese captive, saying he would be killed unless Jordan released a female militant Sajida al-Rishawi, who is thought to be behind an attack on a hotel in Jordan in 2005.
It showed Goto holding the photo of a dead body allegedly belonging to Haruna Yukawa, another Japanese hostage that had been captured by the ISIL Takfiri terrorists.
Goto said in the online footage that if al-Rishawi was not ready for exchange for his life at the Turkish border by Thursday sunset, 29th of January, Mosul time, the pilot Muath al-Kassasbeh would be killed immediately.
The beheading footage, however, included no mention of the Jordanian hostage.
The ISIL extremists have been engaged in crimes against humanity in the areas under their control in Iraq and Syria. They have terrorized and killed people of all communities, including Shias, Sunnis, Kurds, and Christians.
Source:PressTV
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