Children Of The Caliphate
Through brutal intimidation and intensive indoctrination, children throughout Iraq and Syria are being transformed into soldiers and suicide bombers. "The youngest I saw do an operation was 8 years old", recounts 14-year-old Abu Ibrahim, who escaped from an ISIS training camp after they threatened to kill his brother. He describes how children are brainwashed; forced to watch live beheadings and videos of suicide attacks, some even forced to carry out executions and suicide attacks themselves. "They put my hand on a wooden block and cut it off with a butcher's knife", describes Omar, also 14. For daring to defy IS, Omar's hand and foot were publicly amputated in a town square as a warning to other children. This shocking report exposes the horrific cruelty of Islamic State as they recruit a new generation of Jihadis.
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