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IS Penggal Sandera Jepang Kedua


Tawanan asal Jepang Kenji Goto membacakan ancaman baru IS (sumber: AFP)

Sebuah video telah diunggah ke internet menunjukkan pemenggalan seorang sandera yang disebut sebagai warga Jepang Kenji Goto oleh kelompok militan Islamic State (IS).

Video ini muncul kurang dari sepekan setelah kabar bahwa pria Jepang lainnya, Haruna Yukawa, juga telah dipenggal.

Kelompok IS sendiri sebelumnya menuntut uang tebusan senilai US$ 200 juta (Rp 2,5 triliun) untuk dua sandera ini.

Goto, 47 tahun, adalah seorang wartawan lepas dan pembuat film yang cukup kondang. Dia pergi ke Suriah Oktober lalu, kabarnya untuk mengupayakan pembebasan Yukawa yang sudah lebih dulu ditangkap IS.

Penulis: /HA

Sumber:BBC

31 January 2015 Last updated at 21:03

Kenji Goto: Video 'shows IS beheading Japan hostage'


Kenji Goto is a well-known freelance journalist and film-maker



A video has been released online purporting to show the beheading of Japanese hostage Kenji Goto by Islamic State militants.

The video comes less than a week after news of the beheading of another Japanese man, Haruna Yukawa.

Mr Goto, 47, is a well-known freelance journalist and film-maker who went to Syria in October, reportedly to try to secure Mr Yukawa's release.

Japan said it was trying to authenticate the video.

The video, which bears the same symbols as previous IS videos, shows a militant with a British accent beheading Mr Goto.

The US condemned the militants' apparent actions.

"We have seen the video purporting to show that Japanese citizen Kenji Goto has been murdered by the terrorist group ISIL [IS]," said National Security Council spokeswoman Bernadette Meehan.

"We are working to confirm its authenticity. The United States strongly condemns ISIL's actions and we call for the immediate release of all remaining hostages. We stand in solidarity with our ally Japan."

Japanese officials had been working with Jordan to secure the release of Mr Goto and a Jordanian pilot, Moaz al-Kasasbeh.

However, earlier on Saturday they said negotiations had become deadlocked.

An IS video released on Tuesday said Mr Goto had "only 24 hours left to live" and Mr Kasasbeh "even less".

They later gave a deadline of sunset on Thursday for a deal by which Mr Goto would be freed in return for Jordan releasing captured Iraqi militant Sajida al-Rishawi.

But the deal may have been complicated by Jordan's demand that Mr Kasasbeh also be released.

It has also emerged that the militants had exchanged emails with Mr Goto's mother, who has pleaded publicly for her son's release.

IS had initially demanded a $200m (£130m) ransom for the two Japanese hostages.