The selfstyled Islamic State has been defeated militarily but its propaganda videos are still circulating on the internet. Many feature child soldiers undergoing training. Young boys coerced into killing and dying for the count 1st. In 2015 schoolchildren in the french city of toulouse spotted a classmate in an eye as propaganda video. Should be to their master jenna on march 12th i received a call from the school psychologist. And she said we had kids here crying. I quickly realized the children were in shock because of a video theyd watched. Fit of walk. And if you do you. They said yeah thats right leon in the video. Watchers are going to fall madly he says theyd recognize their classmate and his stepfather unmistakeably. It dont golf walk and then you see the child taking aim and killing a prisoner yeah i know that he murders a hostage you know that. At the time ron was 12 years old but schaffel french schoolboy turned into a cold blooded killer. Doctors because he was cute little to do not feel that we could barely believe it but it was true we were now facing a totally new situation. The children had an endless number of questions. To us about we couldnt deal with Something Like this on our own so we called in a team of doctors and psychologists she could get. This info to look on the subject of his former friends and classmates all had the same basic question as us adults how could he possibly do such a thing. In their minds he was a nice boy friendly and kind of. They often had fun together laughing and playing football. Some of them asked if he can murder a human being is he intrinsically evil. Is he a monster has to design for so long michel as to it isnt. A host scott. Brown was taken out of school in april 2014 and brought to syria by his parents his stepfather was a friend of the islamist militant Mohammed Merah he was shot dead by French Police after he murdered 7 people including children at a jewish school. French authorities last all trace of the propaganda video is the last time he was seen alive. Videos of this kind of designed by Islamic State to start in the west by raising the specter of a new generation of merciless functors. Recruited and trained by the Jihadist Group these children say western intelligence agencies pose a serious danger. Even after the caliph its defeat in the field tens of thousands of us fighters remain in iraq interment camps. They include some 5000 children and teenagers among them several 100 who came from europe. Most were recruited to the Islamic State by their own parents. Parts of Northern Iraq semi autonomous kurdish region were among the longest held is. Territories this is all that remains of syndrome. The city was once the center of the years edis an ethnic minority targeted by ass and a campaign of ethnic cleansing. Kurdish troops recaptured send in the autumn of 2015 today it lies in ruins its outskirts licit with dozens of mass graves. In center alone i asked murdered some 10000 years eightys thousands of women and girls were abducted raped and enslaved. I was also kidnapped young boys to enlist them as child soldiers. Is from center she managed to flee when i as fighters captured the city in the summer of 2014 but 71 members of her extended family were tracked by troops of the socalled calif it im not able to escape most were never heard from again. A diva travels tirelessly from one refugee camp to another to help where she can and in the hope of finding a lost relatives. Plus if it if into. The phone all the family were together. But now its so difficult because this road here a bit further on. People lost each other. And now our phone line far from my family my parents and siblings each one of us in a different country. While it. Well. How are you i missed you so much are you all well. Lets go inside. Well what about. How the world does not think. After years of separation idea has managed to track down some of her relatives they were able to escape by his troops after the intervention of kurdish and the rocky forces. How are you are you in good health thank goodness thank god thats. All that ringback 2. Funny. Are you well. That one of the divas causeless was recruited by ass and trained as a child soldier. When you sit down with me. I. Was 13 when he and others he children were abducted and transported to rocker the erstwhile capital of the i asked counterfeit. Father received the type of minute tree drilling displayed in his propaganda video. That have you seen these videos that i had sense to youngsters out of him act yes they build one of them in our camp it shows boys marching in uniform. Theyre all wearing hats about 70 or 80 kids in total you just said ill. Just do it even. It out of a degree you know. But you know when i was a little i want to thank. That is me there. Not until that point thats right in front of me. Yes this boy here is a u. C. D. So is this one and him his sister and mother are also with i. A. S. This ones easy to hes dead. Since. Throughout the duration of his captivity for lived in fear of beatings brutal drills and violence after 5 months in the Training Camp the children were sent by ass to the frontlines to rocka a leper. Traumatized the teenager is plagued by not mass and finds it hard to talk about what he went through. All of them will says what i feel like my life was ruined by all the violence and hardship. Can you get that we were torn from one world and placed in another the 1st world was good but the 2nd is very hard so that. Our life is not good time passes and its like were paralyzed and either you have to go to jail or to war and leave your mother you have no choice its no life. What the room is all about ive seen a lot of brutality a lot of bad things it doesnt even scare me if i a spiders behead someone right in front of me. Were used to it because we have seen such dreadful things its not hard to kill a human being you shoot and hes dedicated a little. Fella escaped his eye as captives in december 2016 but his freedom was short lived he was taken into custody by iraqi authorities he feared he could conduct terrorist attacks for i asked. To talk formosas all fall who turned children into killing machines by subjecting them to traumatic experiences that destroyed their moral boundaries. In sierra leone children were forced to rape their mothers or cut off other childrens arms. You know their words to do the unthinkable. When the unthinkable is made possible. It triggers an enormous in arabia sure thats easy to bring to the fore. Of course you welcome your sort of story yes you are. In flux and once children are psychologically confused its easy for malevolent adults to groom them into soldiers of ought to. Leave. The city if we call them monsters to protect ourselves unfortunately it has to be said that their children like our own. Except that theyre forced to abandon their moral boundaries mustnt go to school. Child soldiers stripped about enormous sums of normality im not a new phenomenon many extremist groups and those children for armed combat but i have since reliance on children to fill its ranks and function as human shields appears to have reached exceptional levels children are cheaper they cost less food you have to pay them a lesser wage i mean is that easier mentally to. Engage with and to convince. What was shocking for us was the amount of investment putting children in the past terrorist organization whose children are never at such an organized systematic way because what they want is this army century soldier. I ask used mass rape to breed a new culture a funny says terrorizing an entire ethnic group. Was only 14 when like countless using the women and girls she was abducted and forced into sexual slavery. She was right over and over again ultimately she was forced to marry and i asked fighter which imho why dial out we had to sit on the floor in front of them and the commander said that every soldier should choose a woman so each one of them pointed to one of us and took us away with them and. We had to stay with them for 3 days they killed some of us raped us did unspeakable things to us. Saying its pretty and after about 20 days i realized i was pregnant i tried everything to get rid of the child but nothing worked when the boy was born i wanted nothing to do with him but they threatened me if i didnt raise the child they take it away and hand me over to another man yet i only agreed to take care of the baby so i wouldnt be given to another man at. Night i was forced to marry her rapist. She tried to commit suicide. After months of slavery she managed to escape leaving her child behind. Today ny is back in school but she is one to buy the past as much as she tries to move on she cant forget her baby. Do you think youll ever see your child again. Yes but only when i ask is totally defeated they view the child is their own and they wouldnt give him to me. I know he is a son of the ins theyve done dreadful things to us but still he is my son and of course i think of him but i have no idea where he is and have you tried to find out. Because best i could yes whats his name. And i wanted to give him a z d name but i wasnt allowed to know his name is. Do you remember what he looks like yes. Sure i cant talk about it anymore its too hard. Even after the collapse of i as a selfproclaimed caliphate tens of thousands of women are still raising the children of i ask fighters children conceived to serve the jihad. Thats about it historically a lot of aggressive regimes have banked on high birth rates napoleon pursued this strategy so did the nazis if women had to produce a lot of children the same is true of ai yes. But unlike the nazis who were seeking racial purity. Ah yes is pursuing an agenda of ideological and religious purity theyll do it i took the do they think it would use ive got the legs out of sunday off the fish and chips and this is it doesnt matter to them whether its a chechen arab or german whos joining the jihad or a smiling blue eyed frenchman from normandy. As long as he it hears to their religious ideology. Instead of the medina to do an article for you judge in your thoughts. It wasnt really. From the moment theyre born these children are raised and indoctrinated with this ideology. Its only known. And they have no choice but to adapt to the social environment. Suitable fish. Its inevitable every child grows up immersed in the world view of their parents and protectors its on the experience life as. Good as that in any amount yeah. Its a snap do this and its an awful mysteriously to turn a child into a fanatic because its forming its 1st memories when synapses are connecting to the brain. That if a child learns to hate it in the name of morality of course its surprising how fast these connections are hardwired into the brain. You dont just learn from books or in school you learn everything from the people you love them enough to. See. The childs brain is shaped by those peoples words attitudes and series of. Whats. The important point here is that violence is systematic everywhere in these childrens lives so its a very very structured program of education. Islamic states extremist ideology as im trying to in all aspects of daily life. Even in baby announcements. Props like a kalashnikov or hand grenade hail the new bones jihad is destiny. And tie coloring books filled with various types of military equipment turning weapons of war into normal everyday objects for children growing up among i as far as as. Selma and has now left the home in paris in 2014 and were taken by their mother and stepfather and i as fighter to rocka they lived for 2 years on their return to france their mother was arrested. The girls aged 5 and 7 now live with their biological father who fought hard for custody in his care the children a slowly finding their way back to a normal childhood away from war violence and religious fanaticism but 2 years are a long time for Young Children. Their exposure to eye is indoctrination has impacted the way they think and talk. Why did the bad man want to kill you. Case girl because they were unbelievers. Are very bad evil people they dont pray or read the koran. Did you enjoy learning all these things know. The. Good the language of totalitarianism always resorts to the same pattern it starts with the words infidels unbeliever triggering an Automatic Process that always ends with death. The next level introduces the word blasphemy you ridicule and insult my god there is no greater crime i am indignant and outraged. Rage is an emotional process that makes it impossible to think rationally it escalates until killing becomes the morally right thing to do. From an early age i asked children are exposed to rigid religious doctrine. In kindergarten they would practice beheadings. So its actually very sophisticated to give a child a teddy bear or a toy and teach him how to behead it because then eventually what that setting the precedent for is beheading is ok and its fun and something to do with your friends i grew to enjoy it i ventured when you reach a certain age the beheading becomes of a person im sure you are asked to behead people. This year also your how do you mean with us for. It what they want to see a pleasure. Is up as well i mean all this is all the end of it isnt it a little while in kuala. But school for the cubs of the counterfeit ends at the age of 9 and the curriculum is based soley on the principles of the hunt for seeing him as beyond being home. With. Simon and just 4 years old when i asked occupy their village in 2014. Like many of the children they were abducted to syria and placed in a village near rocca. That. Oh here is this man and here and i asked thailand this is their flag. Place has got. Is this your school in syria you know and rocca. What did they teach you the. The quran and other stuff. Just as if the english 90 he said he once i was in a schoolyard when they chopped a mans head off. And they took another man tied his hands up and strung him up. They shot him from the back and then chopped his head off to. His body fell down as she couldnt have a national healing. Jab madam times they told us if we didnt repeat after them theyd round up everyone close to us so theyd be no one left to take care of us then wed have to stay home all alone and theyd come and kill us over my little. Bit but. First the children have to learn who the enemy is. And that the aim is to establish an Islamic State thats the core message they firmly believe that they are the good guys their ideology stems directly from god their struggle is divine so all these boys want is to please god and their brothers in arms and make sure that were going to school. Its easier to condition small children if you tell a 5 or 6 year old that santa claus is armed with a kalashnikov youll believe you. Rather than take me with you the others on here yet we have to wait. Now as the child becomes older what they are taught in the family that what theyre doing is good and justified only becomes ambleside when they go to schools and people they trust such as teachers and nurses and other schoolchildren are all saying the same idea. The 2 boys were freed by Kurdish Forces in an attack on irans position and reunited with their family in iraqi kurdistan. By that time simon and i had forgotten the mother tongue. They were highly aggressive pulling insults and unveiled women all men who smoked. Showered with their families love and attention the boys needed months before they could begin coping with their horrific experiences and return to school on the life and freedom. Could a socalled Islamic State school is solely a Production Facility for fanatics many regular teachers went into exile lina is a teacher threatened by us in syria she fled across the border to the turkish city of gaza on top. Leno would have preferred to remain in syria where she secretly instructed her pupils in subjects banned by ass. To any. I was never afraid something would happen to me until the end we did what we could to oppose these people that found out that i knew they could do dreadful things to me much worse than anything id ever heard of any but i made a very conscious decision to keep on doing what i was doing that have a. Today her Syrian People is a refugee just like a self. Under Islamic State the children were never allowed to learn the subjects lina teaches. But he hears you by night and theyre going to do that you dont want me i know that you know you cant. Keep them going i have been ok. But. Its hard you know. The i ask curriculum abolished subjects like philosophy and social studies advice history in geography and reduced math to the simple addition of tanks and hand grenades. Teachers who refused to comply were arrested and executed to serve as a warning many of lenas colleagues are dead or have gone into exile like a self and her brother gus one is also a teacher says. Oh as for that its terrible education was always a ray of hope for us. I taught middle and high school we had about 200 pupils but i fear a portion of those will have joined ah yes voluntarily by now either out of ignorance or because theyre poor and need money or. We had hoped the young generation would build a better country but after i asked his conquests i fear for their future. The federal kids who were weaned on their ideology will find it hard to shake. The children who were little back then are now 15 or 20 and the long term i guess wants to use them to build sleeper cells. And. So many of the the children learn that there is just one truth. They are allowed to decide for themselves what is right because that could give rise to doubt anyone who feels doubted can make a decision enjoys a degree of freedom for these children dont experience that they learn there is just one truth thoroughly. And according to i asked this one single truth can only be found in the quran. To prevent doubt from arising in these children i ask cuts off all ties to their previous lives. They are not allowed to have a family all home outside of the Training Camps. For large camps have been known to exist in iraq and saw in syria and in mosul and telefonica in iraq. From a young age children are put through rigorous physical training. At the age of 7 they begin their basic training and weapons and military tactics that last several months. Too dont leaders theyre being forced to be vigilant at all times which is highly stressful. They are never allowed to relax spoke the peaceable position. At the end of the training there was a Graduation Party of sorts but amid growing ayahs losses all the children have really become is cheap cannon fodder. The selfproclaimed i as counterfeits began losing ground in iraq and syria after the battle of mosul in late 2016 i. Asked commanders then increasingly began to send children to the front a truly perfidious tactic. To force an awful do you see a kid with a machine gun just like before you realize what youre saying your dad was this its a type of terror seeing children in such unimaginable situations of assault. On the ground i asked was declared defeated in march 2019. But underground it still plots terror attacks some with the help of children this propaganda video shows a boy steering a vehicle to overtake a military convoy before he blows himself up. Even small children are used for Suicide Missions as documented here by iraqi soldiers in mosul. Yeah it was a way that. I as has nothing to lose by using and abusing children if their mission is successful the Group Achieves its goal but even if it isnt the images of young suicide bombers attract international attention. So they use Young Children who have committed suicide bombings or who have died in the frontlines of 4 and they were these photos of them and make them into little celebrities so like a young child that would worship a football there for example is young kids are worshiping other kids who have killed themselves in war and it seems. That exciting thing that deserves to be rewarded so thats a very sophisticated idea of martyrdom as well. Ali was 10 when he received his i asked Training Like thousands of other boys he was being groomed as a couple of the comfort. Then he was freed by opposition fighters and reunited with his family. He now lives in turkey with his mother and sister. Is from mohamad didnt make it out alive. They took his friend with them the next day he blew itself up. His body exploded there was nothing left. It was ripped into small pieces totally shredded. Many joined i. A. S. They had no idea that he made to die as martyrs they told me you can meet my hamad in paradise if you become a martyr and. One of your reply to i said no id like to go to paradise but not through a suicide bombing they asked if i wanted to attack a school. Do you know why as uses Young Children. Its easier to brainwash them its like they have a Remote Control thats how much power they have the kids go where ever theyre sent i saw with my own eyes how they strap explosives on to kids and sent them on a mission or made them drive a vehicle with a car bomb this thats why i didnt like them it was too much for me i dont trust them anymore and if they come again for me i wont join them. As the family escaped his father stepped on a landmine. And as younger sister watched him die. Another horrific shock for these deeply traumatized children sticks with sticks are. You can you tell me what youre drawing a 100 or so and i ask guy chucking someones head off and a person whos been crucified chopped off head and attacking planes. Do you dream about stuff like this. And yes i do we all have nightmares. The children who have undergone indoctrination and i have Training Camps and claimed about 1500 from western european countries. Almost 300 from germany and more than 500 from france. Intelligence and Security Experts warn of the threat they pose should they return and of call for precautionary measures should now we have a 2 fold problem weve got former extremists former terrorists and foreign fighters so we have individuals that are going to fight in countries like iraq and syria who are coming back not just as former terrorists but foreign fighters which makes it even more difficult to deal with. How do you deal with children who have undergone military training and experienced brutal violence. Can maybe really integrated into society is that a pope human rights freedom and the rule of law at. The courthouse and bobby nina paris houses the files of all the children who have returned to france from previously held i asked territories. About 20 come back each year most of them are not yet 12. On their return french authorities immediately arrest the parents and place the children in state camp. As is also of course we dont ask these children what did you do what did you see or hear we dont ask questions we just observe them they have to learn to adjust naturally they feel somewhat lost theyve been separated from their parents suddenly theyre alone its brutal to see your mom and dad handcuffed and taken away by police. We give them time to process it all then we let them tell us their story. Our primary focus is finding the best conditions for their reintegration and protecting them as it as. Every child is treated as an individual case and is given a chance even of some politicians or prosecutors cool former child soldiers a Security Risk and describe them as ticking time bombs. Maybe some children really are ticking time bombs but if we say they cant be saved then we are in the wrong line of work that would mean there is no point trying to protect children and juvenile delinquents. Am i as a prosecutor supposed to say they cannot be saved in my opinion we need to do everything we possibly can to save them and avert the worst Case Scenario of europes here. Is that they are we help them cope with their experiences and put them into perspective and their heads everything is upside down they need to sort through their experiences put them in boxes put the boxes in cupboards and the cupboards into the cellar then they can live in the house and they know the bad things are in the server. No one knows just how many children and teenagers have returned to europe a survivors of i asked manipulation and tara. Of origins on both sides of the atlantic need to develop strategies to deal with the situation. Were dealing with an adversary that has no end. This will never stop ill never forget bin laden in an interview saying i working on a 2000 year continuum if i dont do it my son will do it his son will do it his son will do it it will happen i will never see it but it will happen thats the problem with western thinking we think problem resources Problem Solved thats not how they think thats not how it works we underestimate their longevity underestimate their ability to sustain they may go away for a few years but theyre never gone. Pete. I asked wants the west to fear its child soldiers and its new generation of jihadists and it wants us to forget that these children are above all victims not pub atrocious. Many also hail from europe which makes the authorities there legally and morally obligated to take them back they matter how brainwashed they appear. Shouldnt cross the political cosmos such as call on which to call. Yourself was not even 10 when his family took him to syria in the summer of 2014 and turned him over to yes as seen in this facebook video. It does something. For a soon. To gitmo search for us policy. Theres been no sign of use of since. Perhaps his diaries. Or he may come back one day to france and to an uncertain future. Behind the beautiful sparkle is in the ugly secret might. Be. The natural mineral gives cosmetics missioner. But most of it comes from illegal minds in india. And those who extract it absent children. Are at all costs. 90 minutes. Hi im neil and im good welcome to the 2nd season of only. The planet on the brink of disaster we did long interview experts about one question. Please seems like a good morning. Frank food. 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