Sudan condemns brutal killing of 21 Egyptians by Islamic State
February 16, 2015 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudanese government condemned the beheading of 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians in Libya by militants claiming allegiance to the Islamic State in Iraq and Levant (ISIS) that was uncovered over the weekend.
He said that Sudan condemns “in the strongest terms the slaughter of Egyptian Coptic at the hands of the so-called Islamic State (Da’esh) in Libya”.
Al-Kordofani expressed his country’s solidarity and warm condolences to the Egyptian people and government and the families and the victims stressing that “Sudan asserts its total condemnation of terrorism in all its forms and manifestations”.
In the video released by ISIS, masked men dressed in black marched the 21 Egyptian captives, who had gone to Libya in search of jobs, dressed in orange jump suits, at a beach the group said was near Tripoli. They were forced down onto their knees, then beheaded.
The gruesome footage of the killing drew anger throughout Egypt and calls for revenge and military intervention against ISIS.
Egypt’s president Abdel-Fattah al-Sissi warned in a televised address after the release of the video that his country would choose the “necessary means and timing to avenge the criminal killings”.
Afterwards the Egyptian military announced that bombed ISIS targets inside Libya at dawn on Monday hitting ISIS camps, training sites and weapons storage areas.
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