Mozambique insurgency: Children beheaded, aid agency reports

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Source: BBC News

A leading aid agency says that children as young as 11 are being beheaded in Mozambique's Cabo Delgado province.

One mother told Save the Children she had to watch her 12-year-old son killed in this way close to where she was hiding with her other children.

More than 2,500 people have been killed and 700,000 have fled their homes since the insurgency began in 2017.

Militants linked to the Islamic State (IS) group are behind a conflict in the province.

Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-56411157

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2. Reuters

https://www.yahoo.com/news/mozambique-militants-beheading-children-young-145146365.html

Mozambique's northernmost province of Cabo Delgado has since 2017 been home to a festering insurgency, linked to Islamic State, that has escalated dramatically in the past year.

While beheadings have always been a hallmark of the attacks, throughout 2020 the insurgents began regularly engaging the military to capture and hold key towns. Brutality also continued, with mass killings including the murder of around 52 people at once in the village of Xitaxi in April.

Altogether almost 2,700 people on all sides have died in the violence, according to the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED), a consultancy that tracks political violence. Almost 670,000 people have been displaced, Save the Children said.

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4. Right down the road from Dar Es Salaam in Tanzania.

Jihadis never live and let live. Believer wars are the bane of this planet. They won't leave Christian Mozambique alone in the long run.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabo_Delgado_Province

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3. The brutality is amazing.

Disregard for life, for what? This is their method of execution. It makes me want to throw up.