On a Libyan beach today: 12 humans beheaded by ISIS

A new video from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) purportedly shows the group killing of captured Ethiopian Christians in Libya.

A new video from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) purportedly shows the group killing of captured Ethiopian Christians in Libya.

Christianity is a minority religion in Libya. Since Roman times it has always been present in Tripolitania and Cyrenaica.

Christianity in Ethiopia dates to the 1st century AD, and this long tradition makes Ethiopia unique amongst sub-Saharan African countries. Christianity in this country is divided into several groups.

The 29-minute video released online on Sunday shows two groups of dark-skinned captives. It says one group is held by an ISIL affiliate in eastern Libya and the other by an affiliate in the south.

A masked fighter delivers a long statement before the video switches between footage of the captives in the south being shot to death and the captives in the east being beheaded on a beach.

The footage released online shows one group of about 12 men being beheaded by armed men on a beach and another group of at least 16 being shot in the head in a desert area.

It was not immediately clear who the captives were.

Etihiopian embassy officials in Cairo are unable to confirm those murdered are Ethiopian citizens.

The video bore the official logo of the ISIL media arm Al-Furqan and resembled previous videos released by the group.

A text on the screen identifies the men as “followers of the cross from the enemy Ethiopian Church”.

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