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Child soldiers of the Islamic State
This week, Islamic State (IS) group social-media accounts posted an image of a young boy of perhaps 12 or 13 years old. Abu Usama is not playing at being an Islamic State rebel. He is one of the militant group's child fighters. IS social media praised him as the youngest fighter to guard the front lines in Kobani.Over the past weeks, many more reports have emerged with evidence that IS militants are providing military training to schoolchildren. Other reports claim that they are also using children as young as 13 as fighters. In Mosul, IS has replaced physical-education classes at local schools with martial-arts classes. A teacher there said that IS militants explained that "they need Mosul's students to be the future soldiers of the caliphate." Also this week, an activist group in Raqqa, the Syrian town that has become Islamic State's de facto capital, posted evidence that the Islamic State is running a training camp for children under 16. Posted by: ryuge 2014-11-01 |
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