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“Look at this village.”Īttacks on Coptic Christians in Libya are not new according to the Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms, 14 Christians, including an entire family, were killed in Libya just last year. We’re not going for tourism there is no work here,” he says, waving to el-Aour’s low-slung homes. But hundreds of thousands of mostly working-class Egyptians still go despite the risks, because they can’t find opportunities at home.Īziz says he had no choice but to work there. It has been dangerous in Libya for years, and Libyans are living with near-daily assassinations and kidnappings in some parts of the country, as well as an ongoing civil war. A Libyan friend smuggled them out of the country.
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But he and eight others managed to evade the gunmen. The gunmen had a list of names, and Aziz’s name was on that list. They took his friends and relatives from the next room, beat them, cursed them and tied their hands behind their backs with plastic ties. He says the armed men arrived in four vehicles. They just came to kidnap the Christians.” “I heard them screaming, and I heard them asking about the Christians.
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“I heard it and I saw that from the window,” Aziz says. The 19-year-old carpenter was sharing a house with the other victims, but was in a separate room and hid from the gunmen. He is a martyr for Christ.”Ībraham Bashr Aziz made it home safely from Libya after witnessing the kidnapping last month - but barely. “I heard him calling, ‘Oh Jesus,’ as he was beheaded. Malak Shoukry’s brother, Yousef, is among the dead. The loss of so many residents all at once has devastated the community, a farming village of homes made out of cinder block or mud about 150 miles south of Cairo. Outside, under chirping birds, men gather on one of the narrow, unpaved roads. Relatives bow their heads in prayer, as they’ve done every day since the posting online of the gruesome video showing their loved ones being beheaded, purportedly in Libya’s capital, Tripoli. In it, he describes the virtues of a martyr: A martyr loves God a martyr is brave. On Tuesday, in order to offer comfort, the church in el-Aour played a recording of a sermon from the late Coptic Pope Shenouda. On the day people found out about the massacre, the local priest says, there were screams coming from every house and every street. While this new variation on brutality shocked people around the world, the horror - and sorrow - hit hardest in a small, poor Egyptian town: Residents say 13 of the men were from El-Aour, a hamlet on the Nile River that is a mix of Christians and Muslims. All but one were confirmed to be Christian laborers from Egypt. Over the weekend a video emerged apparently showing the Libya branch of the self-proclaimed Islamic State beheading 21 men.