Atrocities on Dantooine

Date: 180310
Planet: Dantooine
Region: Northern Dantooine

Story: (Written by the Galactic News Agency, Ramona doesn't write IC).

The fate of a group of Imperial Stormtroopers gone missing on Dantooine recently was discovered today when their heads were found hanging from trees around the main Imperial outpost on the planet. Upon further investigation of the decapitated bodies the coroner determinded the cause of death to be massive if slow bloodloss through deep wounds on their legs and feet - the troopers were literally bled dry. The autopsy also revealed that the troopers were subjected to electrical shocks prior to getting killed and had suffered blunt trauma to the back of their skulls - they were extensively tortured before getting murdered. The amount of gore found on the scene was on a scale rarely seen even when dealing with the most depraved serial killers, according to an anonymous source.

So far no one has claimed responsibility for this atrocity, but many locals asusme this was done in retaliation for the recent destruction of Tasceryn, even though Dantooine is certainly no stranger to massacres unrelated to the Galactic Civil War. An officer from the Imperial Outpost called the act "a cowardly crime against all civilization stands for", and blamed the Rebellion for it, citing that this was just the latest terrorist attempt to scare the population with heinous murders. So far the Rebel Alliance did not comment on whether such acts were sanctioned by their policy.