How ISIL Recruits, Trains Children

Rasa - The ISIL is holding thousands of young boys captive in Syria and Iraq, where it is teaching them how to become deadly child soldiers.

News ID: 422899

Date: 23 August 2016 - 22:12

RNA - The group has reportedly “given up” on turning adults into terrorists and has instead focused on turning out a new generation of what it calls “lion cubs”.

A 14-year-old child who has managed to escape from ISIL lands said that the leaders of the group told him and other boys that they should sacrifice everything, even themselves. The child fled when he was ordered to kill his brother.

According to the boy, ISIL teaches children on only how to kill their enemies and how to show full loyalty to their commander.

Most of the children are from Syria. Of the 89 cases eulogized by the ISIL in the past 13 months, 39% died detonating a vehicle born IED device and 33% were killed as foot soldiers. Some 4% killed themselves while committing mass casualty attacks against civilians, and 6% died as propagandists embedded with brigades.

In an ISIL video released in 2015, a boy was shown beheading a Syrian soldier under adult supervision.

Also last year, another video showed 25 child soldiers shooting 25 captured Syrian soldiers in the head.

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