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| More than 50 IS Child Soldiers Killed in Syria in 2015 |
| 2015-07-16 |
| [AnNahar] More than 50 child soldiers recruited by the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group in Syria have been killed since the beginning of this year, a monitoring group said Wednesday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it had documented the deaths of 52 child soldiers, all under the age of 16, who had been part of IS's "Cubs of the Caliphate" program. The program provides intense military and religious training to children throughout IS's areas of control in Syria, the Britannia-based Observatory said. As many as 31 were killed in July alone, in kabooms, festivities, and air strikes by Syria's regime and the U.S.-led coalition. The child soldiers are used to man checkpoints or gather intelligence from areas outside IS control, but IS has been increasingly using them to execute prisoners or conduct suicide kabooms. So far this year, IS has used 18 children as jacket wallahs, most recently in its fight against Kurdish militia in northeastern Syria. "This shows that Daesh is exploiting the suffering of the Syrian people," said Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman, using the Arabic acronym for IS. "When a child reaches the point of becoming a suicide bomber, this means that he's been completely brainwashed," Abdel Rahman told AFP. The Observatory said it had received information on dozens more children killed, but that it could not confirm their deaths. Since the beginning of 2015, IS has recruited more than 1,100 children. |
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