Japanese hostage 'not enemy of Muslims'
ISIL demands ransom for Japanese hostages
Second Japanese hostage 'beheaded' by ISIL
Journalist Kenji Goto shown being beheaded in new video released by the armed group, SITE Intel monitoring group says.
The Japanese government said it was trying to authenticate the video [Reuters]
The
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has released a video
purportedly showing the killing of Japanese hostage Kenji Goto, a
monitoring service has said.
The video released online by the armed group shows the journalist who
was abducted while reporting on Syria's civil war last year being
beheaded with a knife by a black-clad masked fighter.
The Japanese government said it was trying to authenticate the video.
Goto was a freelance journalist who had reported from war zones for
more than 20 years, in Africa, Afghanistan and the Middle East.
He travelled to Syria, at least in part, to attempt a rescue of his friend Haruna Yukawa, who was captured by ISIL in August.
Yukawa was a self-styled military consultant who went to Syria to set up a security company, despite a lack of any experience.
In October, Goto was captured by ISIL and was held captive alongside
his friend. ISIL demanded a $200 million dollar ransom for the two men.
But last week, the armed group released a video. In it, there was an
image of Goto, chained by the wrist, and in his hands a photograph of
his friend Yukawa, who had been killed.
ISIL has beheaded and shot dead hundreds of captives - mainly Syrian
and Iraqi soldiers - during its sweep across the two countries, and has
celebrated its mass killings in extremely graphic videos.
The group also beheaded James Foley and Peter Kassig, American
hostages; Steven Sotloff, an Israeli-American; and David Haines and Alan
Henning, British captives.
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