Several rights groups called on the US government to suspend military aid to the Sisi’s regime in Egypt after a video circulated online showed Egyptian soldiers executing as many as eight detainees in the northern Sinai Peninsula. The perpetrators of the executions were said to be members of Egyptian military intelligence. They were shown in the video commanding executions before placing rifles next to bodies to depict the dead as militants killed in a raid, Human Rights Watch said. Joe Stork, deputy Middle East director for Human Rights Watch, called the killings “outrageous” and said the incident shows Egypt’s counterterrorism campaign in Sinai “is out of control.”“Egypt’s allies cannot claim ignorance about these deadly abuses,” Stork said. Human rights group Amnesty International said it had analyzed the footage that showed “cold blooded killings”.

Source: The North Africa Journal April 22, 2017 14:03 UTC