Video Appears to Show Egyptian Soldiers Killing Unarmed Men in Sinai<br />Sinai said that We’ve never seen video from Sinai or elsewhere showing an Egyptian serviceman killing someone in cold blood.<br />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<br />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.<br />Eight people were killed and four others were arrested, the military said on Facebook in December, as Egyptian armed forces<br />"continued to tighten their security grip" in the Sinai Peninsula, where the country has waged a yearslong battle.<br />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.<br />Mokhtar Awad said that But it accords closely with our findings about other summary executions in Sinai and Cairo.<br />The pro-state Egyptian news site Youm7 called the video a fabrication carried out by the Muslim Brotherhood, which is banned in the country,<br />and said the people in the video did not have Egyptian accents.<br />In addition to the three men seen killed, the video shows two men lying on the ground who were apparently in the Facebook post.
