Islamic
State militants have reportedly executed 15 Christians who have been
captured in villages in northeastern Syria since Monday.
A
priest who has been feeding reports to Christian aid agencies around
the world, including Aleteia partner Aid to the Church in Need, said
today that a Christian Assyrian lawyer in the city of Hassakah told
him that about 15 young Assyrians "are martyred. Many of them
were fighting to defend and protect the villages and families."
Archimandrite
Emanuel Youkhana of CAPNI, the Christian Aid Program in Iraq, said
that in the Christian village of Tel Hormizd: 14 fighters, two of
whom were women, were killed. One of the women may have been
beheaded, he said. Another 13 fighters from different villages were
captured.
Altogether,
including civilians, as many as 350 Christians from the area have
been captured, he reported--many more than the 70 originally
reported. Their fate is unknown, and there is much speculation. He
said that an unconfirmed report said that a mosque in the Arab Sunni
village of Bab Alfaraj was calling people to attend a "mass
killing of infidels in the mountain of Abdul Aziz on Friday."
Archimandrite
Youkhana reported that none of the residents of one Christian village
that the Islamic State attacked, Tel Shamiram, were able to escape.
This village had 51 families, with an average of five persons per
family, he said.
"There
was fire exchange between the fighters protecting the village and IS
terrorist group," the priest wrote. "It is believed there
are casualties and many are Assyrians are been killed in the village.
No news on the destiny of the families. Most probably they are been
captured and transported to Mount Abdul Aziz, a nearby mount/region
controlled by IS."
Other
villages attacked included Tel Jazira, Tel Gouran, Tel Feytha, and
Qabir Shamiya.
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