The barbarians came at dawn and destroyed everything in their path. They murdered indiscriminately. They brutalized the elderly and the children, taking them away as hostages. They raped the women and executed them. Afterward, they paraded the defiled corpses in the streets, and proudly exhibited mutilated body parts as trophies.
Emanuele Ottolenghi is a senior research fellow at the Center for Research on Terror Financing (CENTEF).
