Syrian rebels crucified: Islamic extremists execute two men in the most public way for ‘fighting against Muslims’<\/p>\n\n\n\n
MAIL ONLINE<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Islamic extremists have publicly crucified two Syrian rebels in northeastern Syria in revenge for a grenade attack on members of their group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The jihadist Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant said it had executed a total of seven prisoners who it claimed had carried out a grenade attack on one of its fighters earlier this month in the Euphrates Valley city of Raqqa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The group, which even Al Qaeda have been keen to distance themselves from, said on Twitter: ‘Ten days ago, attackers on a motorbike threw a grenade at an ISIL fighter at the Naim roundabout. A Muslim civilian had his leg blown off and a child was killed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights posted a photograph of the two prisoners being crucified at the roundabout.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Passers-by appear to be walking past the two men apparently unfazed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One of the men is pictured with a banner wrapped round his body which reads: ‘This man fought against Muslims and threw a grenade in this place.’<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said they were not the first crucifixions by ISIL. On April 16, its fighters executed a man for theft from a Muslim in the same way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
ISIL’s exactions caused a backlash against them from rival rebel groups, including Al-Qaeda’s official Syria affiliate Al-Nusra Front, who joined forces against its fighters from the start of the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
ISIL has now been forced out of much of northern Syria but its fighters remain entrenched in Raqqa – the only provincial capital entirely outside Syrian government control – and much of its surrounding province.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The group also carried out three executions in the Raqqa provincial town of Tal Abyad, on the Turkish border, and two more in the town of Saluq, the Observatory said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Last week, ISIL claimed responsibility for a series of explosions which killed 28 people and left more than 40 injured at a political rally in Iraq on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The militant group Asaib Ahl Haq (League of the Righteous) was presenting its candidates for elections on April 30 at the rally in eastern Baghdad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Three bombs exploded in succession as people were leaving, reporters at the scene said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A roadside bomb went off near the main gate, followed by a suicide car bomb after a few minutes and then a final explosion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In a statement posted on the internet, ISIL said it had carried out the bombings in response to ‘murder, torture and displacement’ of Sunnis by Shi’ite militias which ‘massacred children and women’.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Condemning the act, Ribal Al-Assad, Director of the ODFS, said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“I am appalled to learn of these brutal executions in Raqqa; a horrific spectacle which demonstrates the gravity of the situation facing ordinary Syrians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is barbarism, there can be no excuse for such heinous behaviour and those responsible must be brought to justice – these crimes cannot be forgotten.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We cannot allow this situation to continue, these acts are a signal for us all – we urgently need to resolve this conflict through a peaceful and democratic means before crimes like these become commonplace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The International community must come together and rid Syria, the region and the whole word of these extremists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
These people know no bounds, they are capable of anything.”<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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