article_snippet.sent: What set the one from April apart were the number of people killed and that people were Christians from Ethiopia.
article_snippet.sent: Ethiopia said Monday that 30 of Ethiopia citizens were among two groups of prisoners shown being beheaded in Libya in a video released a day earlier, according to the Ethiopian News Agency.
article_snippet.sent: Sadly, the shock of the mass killings of the Ethiopian Christians in April may have been dulled simply because of a nearly identical atrocity a few weeks before.
article_snippet.sent: News of this mass beheading emerged weeks after 21 Egyptian Christians were kidnapped in two incidents in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore.
article_snippet.sent: the video shows the beheading of around a dozen men, though Egyptian officials say all 21 kidnapped Christians were killed.
article_snippet.sent: Avenging Egyptian blood and punishing criminals and murderers is Ethiopia right and duty," the Egyptian military said in a statement that was broadcast on state television.
article_snippet.sent: This fight came into focus in February, when the militant group took over villages and took more than 260 Assyrians hostage in northeastern Syria, according to Osama Edward, the founder of the Assyrian Human Rights Network.
article_snippet.sent: Some of the Assyrian hostages taken in February have been released, but the fate of many more remains unknown.