Sunday, January 25, 2015

Video Shows Decapitated Body of Japanese Hostage of ISIS

Yesterday a video was posted on YouTube that showed one of the two Japanese hostages, Kenji Goto, on his knees holding a photograph depicting the decapitation of the other hostage, Haruna  Yukawa. The three-minute long video entailed a kidnapper's voice stating that the blame for Mr. Yukawa's death was on Japanese Prime Minister Abe, for his failure to pay a two-hundred million ransom for both men. Now the kidnappers have changed the ransom, instead of money, the demand the release of bomber suspect Sajida Mubarak al-Rishawi, who is suspected to have taken part in the triple hotel bombings in Jordan's capital in 2005. The future of Kenji Goto is uncertain, due to Japan's established stance of non-agressive involvement in international politics. Hopefully negotiations will bring the safe return of the remaining hostage back to Japan.

Article can be found Here

Anne Sortino
(Apologies for the font size change in the middle of the post, I'm doing this on my phone and it won't allow me to fix it.)

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