Posted on 12/29/2015 2:39:27 AM PST by Michael van der Galien
Syrian documentary filmmaker and anti-ISIS activist Naji Jerf was assassinated in the Turkish city of Gaziantep yesterday. His own organization, "Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently," announced the news of his murder on Twitter. In the statement the group says Jerf was gunned down by an unknown assailant using a silencer-equipped pistol.
Jerf was killed shortly after he and his family were granted a visa for asylum in France. They were set to depart for Paris later this week, a friend says.
Jerf was a true modern hero. Having escaped from Syria, he might have built a new life for himself in Turkey or elsewhere, but the father of two chose to make documentaries exposing ISIS' many crimes against humanity in Raqqa, the Syrian city the group considers the capital of its radical Islamic caliphate. That put him on the hit list.
According to Turkish media, Jerf was producing a new documentary on massacres carried out by ISIS jihadists when he was assassinated. The website T24 news reports that Jerf was "hit by a bullet in the head as he was walking in the street." He was transported to the hospital, where he died.
Jerf is the third Syrian anti-ISIS activist to be murdered while hiding in Turkey. Earlier this year, Ibrahim Abdelkader and a friend were found decapitated in a house in the city of Sanliurfa. Like Jerf, Abdelkader worked for "Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently." He, too, was a known target of ISIS' assassins.
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Sad news...
Was he the one who had the twitter account Raqqa being slaughtered silently?
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