Yet another Kurdish journalist captured, brutally murdered by IS militants

, Oct 15:

journalist Muhanad Akidi, who was reportedly murdered by IS militants on October 13, 2014. He had been working for a local news agency and also presented a television show, said an IBT report.

Akidi was reportedly abducted by IS two months ago while he was on assignment in the IS-held Mosul city. The Kurdistan Democratic Party confirmed the journalist's death saying he was executed at the Ghazlani military base.

A few days ago, Iraqi cameraman Raad al-Azzawi was publicly executed near Tikrit by IS. Reportedly, the 37-year-old Azzawi, his brother and two other civilians were killed in the small village of Samra on Friday as they had refused to support the Islamic State and work for the extremist group.

The pictures of the two Kurdish journalists have been taking rounds in social media networks like Facebook and Twitter, where users have been condemning the act of ISIS. The internet community allege that unlike the Western journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloffwho were executed by ISIS, the Kurdish journalists' have not been talked about much.

The two Kurdish journalists deserve to be remembered like the Western journalists who were beheaded by ISIS, say the social media users.

Why haven't you heard that #IslamicState has executed another journalist? Because he was an Iraqi Kurd. http://t.co/8uieDTXqMb #MuhanadAkidi

— Noelle Swan (@swannoelle) October 14, 2014

Today #ISIS killed a Kurdish journalist named Muhanad Akidi and not surprisingly, the US media did not find this newsworthy.

— Dan Arel (@danarel) October 14, 2014

#ISIS executes #Kurdish journalist Muhanad Akidi today. Lets show him the same love we showed for Western journalists pic.twitter.com/3ueMn3RIni

— Rang (@RangAbdullah) October 13, 2014

The extremist Islamic State militants have said that any journalist working in their territory must declare their allegiance to IS or face death. Any civilian who speaks to Western media will also be killed, the IS has warned.

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