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Islamic State kills three Assyrian Christian captives

A video released by the group shows the men dressed in orange jumpsuits before they are shot dead.

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Islamic State militants, ISIS have supposedly slayed three Christian hostages which are with their detention taking into consideration that February and so are intimidating to get rid of 200 more in case the liberate of usd100,000 per inmate is not really paid for.

ISIS uses hostage executions in an attempt to extort ransom payments for their other hostages, in order to fund their terror operations.

Islamic State abducted the Assyrians in February during battles with the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia in northeastern Syria.

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).

Both organizations said they were killed two weeks ago on Eid al-Adha, an Islamic holiday.

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“We condemn this latest act of barbarism in the strongest possible terms”, an Assyrian activist network said in a statement. We plea and beg of the global community to intervene immediately. “The worldwide community must act now to save lives of others kidnapped”. The systematic ethno-religious cleansing of Assyrians/Syriacs/Chaldeans continues. As a people, the Assyrians/Chaldeans/Syriacs, who were among the first to embrace Christianity, are already on the endangered list.

Members of the Assyrian Gozarto Protection Forces in Hasakeh north-east Syria where Isis took 253 Assyrian Christians captive in an initial offensive early this year