A video has emerged purportedly showing the execution of
a Nigerian Christian by a young boy from an ISIS-affiliated
terror group.
The horrific footage, released by ISIS's Amaq 'news
agency', shows a child of around eight years old carrying out the execution in
an unidentified outdoor area of Borno, Nigeria.
The child in the video warns other Christians: 'We won't
stop until we take revenge for all the blood that was spilled.'
A still from a video clip released by ISIS's Amaq
'news agency', showing a child of around eight years old carrying out the
execution of a Nigerian Christian
An image taken from the distressing footage has been
shared online by SITE Intelligence Group, an organisation which tracks the
activity of jihadist groups.
Director of SITE Intelligence Group, Rita Katz, said of
the video: 'There is no end to ISIS's immorality.'
According to Katz, the video was taken in Borno
in north-eastern Nigeria and the boy is from the Islamic State West Africa
Province (ISWAP) terror organisation.
While ISIS has ramped up its attacks on Christians in
recent years, Katz added that the video was also a 'throwback' to the terror
group's days of children conducting gruesome executions.
ISIS has routinely used young children, dubbed 'cubs of
the Caliphate', to carry out the killings of prisoners in propaganda videos.
The Islamic State's West Africa branch was formed after a
faction broke away from Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram in 2016.
Soldiers stationed in Nigeria's restive northeast have
been fighting Boko Haram's decade-long campaign of violence. Jihadis Boko
Haram and its IS-affiliated Islamic State West Africa Province faction have
recently stepped up attacks on military and civilian targets in Nigeria
Last month, eleven Christian hostages were reportedly
killed by ISWAP terrorists in Borno on Christmas Day.
A video released last month showed 13 hostages, 10
believed to be Christian and three Muslim. ISWAP claimed they spared the lives
of two of the Muslims
The terror group said they killed the captives to avenge
for the killing of their leaders Abu bakr al-Baghdadi and Abul-Hasan Al-Muhajir
in Iraq and Syria.
Eleven Christian hostages were killed by Islamic State
terrorists in Nigeria on Christmas Day. This still is from a video clip
released by Islamic State West African Province on December 25
President Muhammadu Buhari condemned the killings, and
urged Nigerians not to allow themselves to be divided by religion. 'We should,
under no circumstance, let the terrorists divide us by turning Christians
against Muslims because these barbaric killers don't represent Islam and
millions of other law-abiding Muslims around the world,' he said in a statement
at the time.
Jihadis Boko Haram and its IS-affiliated Islamic State
West Africa Province faction have recently stepped up attacks on military and
civilian targets in Nigeria.
Boko Haram killed seven people on Christmas Eve in a raid
on a Christian village near the town of Chibok in northeast Nigeria's Borno
state.
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