ICC Note:
Murders of Coptic Christians are reported to have increased after ISIS released a video vowing to remove this entire minority population from Egypt. Killers are said to be carrying hit lists with them which they quickly mark after each assassination. Families are being forced to uproot their lives and relocate to other regions where they can only hope the persecution is diminished.
3/03/2017 Egypt(World Watch Monitor) – A Coptic Christian mother in North Sinai who saw her son and husband killed in front of her in their home says she then saw the gunman calmly tick off her loved ones from a hit-list he carried.
In an exclusive interview with World Watch Monitor, Nabila Fawzi Hanna, 65, said that one of the killers had a list of “many names”. After shooting her son and husband he asked her to confirm who they were and then ticked them off his list.
This came after an Egyptian Islamic State affiliate posted a video message, vowing to “eliminate” Egypt’s Christians and to “liberate Cairo”. The video also included the apparent last statement of the suicide bomber responsible for the 11 December attack on a church in Cairo, which killed at least 28 people – mostly women and children.
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