16-year-old Eritrean forced to watch the beheadings of Ethiopian Christians in Libya – UK paper

A 16-year-old Eritrean migrant who escaped captivity under the Islamic
State (Isis) in Libya has exclusively told IBTimes UK that the jihadists
forced him to watch the beheading and shooting of Eritrean and
Ethiopian Christians.
Nael Goitom, 16, fled IS captivity along with four other Eritreans
minors on 7 April after the extremists decided to move their Libyan camp
in the desert to hide from the fighting in the area.
“We thought: it’s better to try to escape than to wait to be
slaughtered by them,” he told IBTimes UK in an interview. They walked
for four days before reaching a settled area and asking for help.
Under more than a month of IS captivity, the Christian boys were
forced to learn the Koran to become “Cubs of the Caliphate”. “They asked
us ‘what do you choose, to be killed or to become Muslims?’ Of course
we choose the latter. ‘We’ll fight for you’, we said,” Nael said.
But the most harrowing account regards the execution of dozens of
Ethiopian and Eritrean Christians in Libya by IS militants, which was
shown in a 30-minute video featuring extensive rants against
Christianity and the West.