Senseless atrocities:

As reported 14 June 2016, Agence France-Presse, Reuters and Associated Press

Philippine troops found the decapitated head of Canadian hostage Robert Hall in a plastic bag in Jolo town Monday night after a large ransom demand by Abu Sayyaf militants was not met
Philippine authorities have defended their inability to save a second Canadian hostage who was beheaded by Muslim extremist guerrillas, despite months of pursuit.

“We strongly condemn the brutal and senseless murder of Mr. Robert Hall, a Canadian national, after being held captive by the Abu Sayyaf group in Sulu for the past nine months,” presidential spokesman Herminio Coloma said in a statement.

Earlier, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau declared that his government has “every reason to believe” that Hall had been killed by the Abu Sayyaf, the second Canadian captive to be slain this year.
Members of the notorious kidnap-for-ransom Abu Sayyaf gang had said they would murder Hall if they did not receive 300 million pesos ($6.5 million) ransom by Monday afternoon.
Hall was among four people abducted in September last year from aboard yachts at a tourist resort on Samal island in the southern Philippines.
Another Canadian kidnapped at the same time, John Ridsdel, was beheaded in April after a similar ransom demand of 300 million pesos was not paid.

The fates of the two other people abducted at the Samal resort – Hall’s Filipina girlfriend Marites Flor and Norwegian resort manager Kjartan Sekkingstad – were not known.

Listed by the United States as a terrorist organisation, the Abu Sayyaf is a loose network of Islamic militants that was founded in the early 1990s with money from Osama bin Laden’s Al-Qaeda network.
Its leaders have in recent years declared allegiance to the Islamic State group that holds territory in Iraq and Syria.