China’s Muted Response To ISIS’ Killing Of A Chinese Citizen

“I have been in contact with his family this afternoon, in this situation of despair”.

Ms Solberg said: “There are no excuses for the treatment our countryman has been subjected to, it can’t be found in religion, nor ideology”.

China had sought Fan’s rescue and would work to bring his killers to justice, Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Hong Lei said in a separate statement.

In the meantime, China has been using the recent coordinated attacks in Paris and Fan’s death to highlight the need for what it calls a more coordinated worldwide response to terrorism.

“China strongly condemns the brutality of the killing of Chinese national by the Islamic State extremists”, the Chinese president said in Manila while attending an Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting.

ISIL had two months ago demanded a ransom for the release of the men.

Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg said yesterday that while her government could not confirm the killing, there were “no reasons to doubt it”, the Associated Press reported. It said in September one of its citizens appeared to be in Daesh captivity.

Not much was known about the family of the Chinese citizen Fan Jinghui except that he was working as a teacher earlier before moving into advertising field. One day my country will get rid of these animals”, wrote NV Motou on the Sina Weibo social network, while another commentator, Wuyu Lunbi, said: “When are we going to send our fighters there?

Qiu said there had been a political agenda behind the timing of the killings of the hostages.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Tuesday his country would start an operation with Turkey to secure the northern Syrian border.

The victims were Norway’s Ole Johan Grimsgaard-Ofstad and China’s Fan Jinghui, whose pictures featured in the magazine accompanied with the word, “Executed”.

Neither the Norwegian government nor Mr. Grimsgaard-Ofstad’s relatives said why he had traveled to Syria. Although, according to Free Weibo, a site that stores deleted posts from Weibo, it appears many tweets by its users relating to the hostage had been deleted by Chinese media censors.