The three male Christian captives met their deaths in September but news of the execution only surfaced this week.
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A video released by the group shows the men dressed in orange jumpsuits before they are shot dead.
As each man identifies himself, he says: “I am a Nazarene (Christian)”.
According to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Islamic State militants appear to have killed three Christian captives in Syria.
A total of 253 Assyrian Christians were allegedly captured from their settlement.
The Assyrian Human Rights Network said in a statement on Facebook Thursday that the three were killed last month on the first day of the Muslim Eid al-Adha holiday. Ancient churches and other historic structures have been destroyed, erasing testaments to centuries of history, and there have been reports of forced conversions, although Assyrian activists believe a few of these claims to be ISIS propaganda.
“Pro-Assad military forces in Hasakah province took advantage of ISIS attacks on the Assyrian areas by conducting an ethnic cleansing against the Assyrian minority group across the province”, Edward said. We have been driven out of our ancestral lands. “It can not survive without a safe haven and worldwide protection”.
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In February, ISIS militants have launched a major offensive on Assyrian villages in the vicinity of Tel Temir, during which they took control of a number of villages and caused a mass displacement among civilians, beside taking hundreds of Assyrians as hostages. “It is extremely critical that special operations heads in immediately and frees these indigenous Christian people before they’re all executed”, she declared.
