David Cawthorne Haines

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David Cawthorne Haines (born May 9, 1970 in East Yorkshire , † September 2014 ) was a British development worker who was beheaded by the jihadist - Salafist terrorist organization Islamic State .

Life

Haines, who was the father of two children, was born in East Yorkshire in 1970 and moved to Perth , Scotland as a child . He was employed by the Royal Air Force for twelve years . He then went to Zagreb , Croatia from 1999 to 2004, according to The Daily Telegraph . There he worked for the German Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund (ASB) to help civil war refugees.

During the Libyan civil war he worked as head of mission for Handicap International . Afterwards he worked for the group Nonviolent Peaceforce in South Sudan . Most recently, in March 2013, he worked for the Agency for Technical Cooperation and Development (Acted) in Syria near the Turkish border, looking for suitable locations for refugee camps. He was kidnapped three days after his arrival and was considered missing until shortly before he was murdered.

death

A video leaked on September 13, 2014 allegedly showing Haines' execution by Jihadi John . The act itself could not be seen, at the end the decapitated corpse was shown. The British government confirmed the authenticity of the recording shortly afterwards. After James Foley and Steven Sotloff, Haines was the third kidnapping victim whose beheading the Islamic State released a video. In the same video, the murder of the British Alan Henning was threatened.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Daily Telegraph, David Haines-obituary , September 14, 1913
  2. ↑ Wife of British hostage David Haines says: 'He is everything to us'. telegraph.co.uk, September 4, 2014
  3. ↑ Killed hostage David Haines: “Don't they know that he helped Muslims?” Spiegel Online , September 14, 2014
  4. ↑ Cameron wants to hunt down IS fighters. ( Memento from September 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) tagesschau.de , September 14, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Haines, David Cawthorne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British development worker
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH East Yorkshire
DATE OF DEATH September 2014