Death in the desert marks a violent end to Haruna Yukawa’s deeply troubled life

[Sally]

It seems friendships have no bounds.

Death in the desert marks a violent end to Haruna Yukawa’s deeply troubled life
Japan now waits in hope that journalist Kenji Goto, who travelled to Syria to plead with Isis for his friend’s life, will be spared

The beheading of Haruna Yukawa marked the end of a troubled life.
Justin McCurry

Saturday 24 January 2015 20.21 EST

When Friday’s deadline passed with no news of the fate of two Japanese hostages threatened with execution by their Isis captors,Japan allowed itself to hope that the men would be spared.

But with prime minister Shinzo Abe stating that the chilling recording, purportedly released by Isis on Saturday, is genuine, the beheading of Haruna Yukawa marks a violent end to a troubled life.

Aside from their shared interest in the bloody conflicts in Syria and Iraq, Yukawa and the remaining hostage, Kenji Goto, have little in common. Goto, a 47-year-old journalist whom Isis has offered to free in return for the release of Sajida al-Rishawi, a female suicide bomber, has become the public face of a crisis that has tested the country’s leader and dismayed its citizens

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[Tom Sweetnam]

Two more moths flitting too close to the flame.

 

[Sunni Man]

True.........