One of the two hostages has been executed by ISIS today after the deadline to receive 200 million failed, and as a result, Japanese hostage Haruna Yukawa has been beheaded.
Transcript:
I am Kenji Goto Jogo.
You have seen the photo of my cell mate Haruna slaughtered in the land of Islamic caliphate.
You were warned.
You were given the deadline and so my captors acted upon their words.
Abe, you killed Haruna.
You did not take the threats of my captors seriously.
And you did not act within the 72 hours.
Rinko, my beloved wife, I love you and I miss my two daughters.
Please don’t let Abe do the same for my case.
Don’t give up.
You along with our family, friends and my colleagues in the independent press must continue to pressure our government.
Their demand is easier.
They are being fair.
They no longer want money.
So you don’t need to worry about funding terrorists.
They are just demanding the release of their imprisoned sister Sajida Al Rishawi.
It is simple.
You give them Sajida and I will be released.
At the moment it actually looks possible and our governments are indeed a stone throw away.
How?
Our government representatives are ironically in Jordan where their sister Sajida is held prisoner by the Jordanian regime.
Again I would like to stress how easy it is to save my life.
You bring them their sister from the Jordanian regime and I will be released immediately.
Me for her.
Rinko, these could be my last hours in this world and I may be a dead man speaking.
Don’t let these be my last words you ever hear.
Don’t let Abe also kill me.
Of course there should be context on what lead Haruna to his death so I'll try to provide some background on what lead to his demise.
Months prior to his death, Haruna was taken hostage by Syrian fighters after he tried to start his own PMC firm after life wasn't treating him right at home. So after a little bit of soul-searching he decided to start his own mercenary thing even though the guy didn't look or have any military training.
Youtube account: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWNsh_PsmBZvV-MtgpQT1Gg
Unlike the other hostage, Haruna didn't seem to know what he was doing. So when you're in a foreign place with no military experience and knowing only a language that only 1 country in the entire world knows (except for weeaboos), things aren't going to go in your favor. So the inevitable happened and the guy got caught.
After the video came out the whole world that saw it thought he was dead, but months later, he popped out in another video again with another unfortunate dude by the name of Kenji Goto. Kenji Goto was a freelance journalist who was attracted to the situation at Syria and in Iraq and according to third party sources, to try to save Haruna but not much is known on how he got caught by ISIS militants.
And the rest is history.
Here's an article describing in great detail on how Haruna story.
http://www.newsweek.com/homeless-japan-hostage-syria-how-haruna-yukawa-ended-warzone-267024
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Transcript:
I am Kenji Goto Jogo.
You have seen the photo of my cell mate Haruna slaughtered in the land of Islamic caliphate.
You were warned.
You were given the deadline and so my captors acted upon their words.
Abe, you killed Haruna.
You did not take the threats of my captors seriously.
And you did not act within the 72 hours.
Rinko, my beloved wife, I love you and I miss my two daughters.
Please don’t let Abe do the same for my case.
Don’t give up.
You along with our family, friends and my colleagues in the independent press must continue to pressure our government.
Their demand is easier.
They are being fair.
They no longer want money.
So you don’t need to worry about funding terrorists.
They are just demanding the release of their imprisoned sister Sajida Al Rishawi.
It is simple.
You give them Sajida and I will be released.
At the moment it actually looks possible and our governments are indeed a stone throw away.
How?
Our government representatives are ironically in Jordan where their sister Sajida is held prisoner by the Jordanian regime.
Again I would like to stress how easy it is to save my life.
You bring them their sister from the Jordanian regime and I will be released immediately.
Me for her.
Rinko, these could be my last hours in this world and I may be a dead man speaking.
Don’t let these be my last words you ever hear.
Don’t let Abe also kill me.
Of course there should be context on what lead Haruna to his death so I'll try to provide some background on what lead to his demise.
Months prior to his death, Haruna was taken hostage by Syrian fighters after he tried to start his own PMC firm after life wasn't treating him right at home. So after a little bit of soul-searching he decided to start his own mercenary thing even though the guy didn't look or have any military training.
Youtube account: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWNsh_PsmBZvV-MtgpQT1Gg
Unlike the other hostage, Haruna didn't seem to know what he was doing. So when you're in a foreign place with no military experience and knowing only a language that only 1 country in the entire world knows (except for weeaboos), things aren't going to go in your favor. So the inevitable happened and the guy got caught.
Embedded media from this media site is no longer available
After the video came out the whole world that saw it thought he was dead, but months later, he popped out in another video again with another unfortunate dude by the name of Kenji Goto. Kenji Goto was a freelance journalist who was attracted to the situation at Syria and in Iraq and according to third party sources, to try to save Haruna but not much is known on how he got caught by ISIS militants.
And the rest is history.
Here's an article describing in great detail on how Haruna story.
http://www.newsweek.com/homeless-japan-hostage-syria-how-haruna-yukawa-ended-warzone-267024
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