Militant video shows 12 Nepalese killed in Iraq (Reuters)
25 February 2008
DUBAI - An Iraqi militant group posted a video on the Internet on Monday showing the killings of 12 Nepalese men who it said worked for a Nepalese company with a US contract.
In the video, from an Islamist group called the Army of Ansar Al Sunna, a militant beheaded one of the men with a knife. The rest were shot in the back lying face down in a sandy lot.
There was no information as to when the killings took place. The footage was similar to a video and pictures posted in 2004, when an Iraqi militant group killed 12 Nepali hostages who had gone to Iraq to work as cooks and cleaners for a Jordanian firm.
Those images also showed a militant beheading one man and the others being shot in the back by an automatic weapon.
“After investigating their identities and their destinations, we have, with grace from God the Almighty, implemented God’s ruling against them,” the militant group said in an on-screen message in the posting on Monday.
Neither Iraqi police nor US officials in Baghdad had any immediate information the incident.
At the time of the 2004 killings, an estimated 200,000 Nepalis worked as labourers, drivers, guards, cleaners and cooks in Iraq, even though poor Nepal did not allow its nationals to travel or work in there because of security concerns.
The killing of foreign contractors by militants in Iraq has declined, matching overall falls in violence.
DUBAI (Reuters) - An Iraqi militant group posted a video on the Internet on Monday showing the killings of 12 Nepalese men who it said worked for a Nepalese company with a U.S. contract.
In the video, from an Islamist group called the Army of Ansar al-Sunna, a militant beheaded one of the men with a knife. The rest were shot in the back lying face down in a sandy lot.
There was no information as to when the killings took place. The footage was similar to a video and pictures posted in 2004, when an Iraqi militant group killed 12 Nepali hostages who had gone to Iraq to work as cooks and cleaners for a Jordanian firm.
Those images also showed a militant beheading one man and the others being shot in the back by an automatic weapon.
"After investigating their identities and their destinations, we have, with grace from God the Almighty, implemented God's ruling against them," the militant group said in an on-screen message in the posting on Monday.
Neither Iraqi police nor U.S. officials in Baghdad had any immediate information the incident.
At the time of the 2004 killings, an estimated 200,000 Nepalis worked as labourers, drivers, guards, cleaners and cooks in Iraq, even though poor Nepal did not allow its nationals to travel or work in there because of security concerns.
The killing of foreign contractors by militants in Iraq has declined, matching overall falls in violence.
(Reporting by Inal Ersan; Editing by Michael Winfrey)
इराकमा नेपालीहरुको फेरि सामुहिक रुपमा मारिएको खबरले आज काठमाडौ लगायत देशका विभिन्न ठाउँमा निकै चर्चा पायो । उक्त खबर गलत भएको भन्दै परराष्ट्र मन्त्रालयका प्रवक्ता हिरा बहादुर थापाले पुष्टि गर्नुभएको छ ।
प्रवक्ता थापाद्वारा जारी विज्ञप्तिमा विगतमा १२ जना नेपाली मारिएको भिडियो रेकर्ड इन्टरनेटमा राखी पुनः हिंसा भड्काउन खोजिएको उल्लेख गरिएको छ । इन्टरनेट सञ्चारमाध्यमले इराकमा एक व्रि्रोही समुहद्वारा १२ जना नेपालीहरुको हत्या गरिएको समाचार र तस्वीर प्रकाशन गरेको कुरालाई परराष्ट्र मन्त्रायलले बुझी गलत भएको पुष्टि गरेका छ । प्रवक्ता थापाले भन्नुभयो-'सञ्चारमाध्यमले राखेको समाचार आफैमा गलत हो ।'
उक्त समाचारप्रति नलाग्न सबै नेपालीलाई आग्रह समेत विज्ञप्तिमा गरिएको छ । इराकमा मारिएका नेपालीहरुको पुरानै भिडियो राखेर र हिंसा भड्काउन र संविधानसभा निर्वाचन विथोल्ने तत्वले गरेको षड्यन्त्र हुन सक्ने अनुमान अहिले गरिएको छ ।
dimag kharab, taile jhandai mero dimag kharab ra nindra haram garis, mula. Glad this news is not true as another riot in Ktm is not what we need anytime soon. Once was enough...I wouldn't want the looters to get rich on behalf of some of the hard-working and enterprising muslim families we have in Ktm. BTW, in 2004 when the Muslim families were robbed of their belongings, as far as I heard until a year ago, the police still hadn't held anyone responsible and most of these families had received none of their looted items back. Can anyone verify if thats still the case? C'mon why blame Musims who have been living for generations in ktm for the atrocities the Neps in the Mid-East face? If this is how our mentality is, then I see exactly why we are the still the 33rd poorest nation in the world (http://www.un.org/special-rep/ohrlls/ldc/list.htm). In the long run at this trend, we as a country are doomed.
MAGA and all how do you feel about Trumps cabinet pick?
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