Video Appears to Show Egyptian Soldiers Killing Unarmed Men in Sinai
Sinai said that We’ve never seen video from Sinai or elsewhere showing an Egyptian serviceman killing someone in cold blood.
The same men included in the Facebook post in December were apparently also shown in a military video shared on YouTube in November for an operation
that claimed to have killed eight terrorists "during clashes." Sarah Leah Whitson, the executive director of Human Rights Watch’s Middle East and North Africa Division, which released a report about the January killings, said the group was investigating the latest video.
Eight people were killed and four others were arrested, the military said on Facebook in December, as Egyptian armed forces
"continued to tighten their security grip" in the Sinai Peninsula, where the country has waged a yearslong battle.
It also comes after human rights groups accused the Egyptian military of killing up to 10 men in January in a staged counterterrorism raid in Sinai.
Mokhtar Awad said that But it accords closely with our findings about other summary executions in Sinai and Cairo.
The pro-state Egyptian news site Youm7 called the video a fabrication carried out by the Muslim Brotherhood, which is banned in the country,
and said the people in the video did not have Egyptian accents.
In addition to the three men seen killed, the video shows two men lying on the ground who were apparently in the Facebook post.