Islamic State West African Province has released a video that shows a Christian man being executed by an Islamic State child \u201csoldier\u201d in Borno, Nigeria.<\/p>\n
In a video released by its news platform, Amaq agency, ISWAP said the Christian man was killed on Monday.<\/p>\n
Pieter Van Ostaeyen, a member of the editorial board of the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism based in the Hague, said the \u201ckid is about 10.\u201d<\/p>\n
In a video seen by The Guardian Nigeria, the jihadists showed the face of the man wearing a red kaftan and kneeling right in front of the young terrorist who made some recitations before shooting the man.<\/p>\n
\u201cSomeone brainwashed that poor kid, deprived it of its innocence and made it believe it was justified to kill other people in the name of a sick ideology,\u201d Tomasz Rolbiecki, a researcher on Islamic State\u2019s attacks worldwide said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf anyone ever asks me what is the worst part of the Islamic State, I\u2019ll show them this,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
The killing comes weeks after ISWAP released a video claiming to show the killing of 11 Christians.<\/p>\n
The militants said it was part of its recently declared campaign to \u201cavenge\u201d the death of its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi during a US raid in Syria in October.<\/p>\n
No details were given about the victims, who were all male, but ISWAP says they were \u201ccaptured in the past weeks\u201d in Nigeria\u2019s north-eastern Borno State.<\/p>\n
One captive in the middle was shot dead while the other 10 are pushed to the ground and beheaded.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe killed them as revenge for the killing of our leaders, including Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and [IS spokesman] Abul-Hasan al-Muhajir,\u201d said a member of the group\u2019s media unit, according to Ahmad Salkida, a journalist who was first sent the video.<\/p>\n
While reacting to the killings, Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari condemned the apparent killings and urged Nigerians not to let themselves be divided along religious lines.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe should, under no circumstance, let the terrorists divide us by turning Christians against Muslims because these barbaric killers don\u2019t represent Islam and millions of other law-abiding Muslims around the world,\u201d he said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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