Its just. Its just so. In. The fall. It just seems. To have been the special. One of. The. Shows who stood. Before her grandchildren one morning and his m a nasa vanished they taught us how to use an explosives belt to show just how to trigger its by pressing the red button sure in case we were of a quote by the infidels hamas so if they get any jet of my money. They practice that with me for two days and also showed me where i was supposed to blow my cell phone so you know democrats have found out how little by. I dont. Either but that the. Habit that i had a must have that. I have to. Move. So. Stressed what i felt that was that. And. How money was not there my how i was pretty advanced. Theyd already show me the place they wanted me to blow myself up. They told me tomorrow god will welcome you in paradise. In paradise youll be reunited with your parents. They said suicide bombers even get money for blowing themselves up and that wed have toys cars and computers in paradise anything we wanted. To go in before. Q. Also see your parents in paradise or anything you want god will give it to you. And that is new. And twelve and i asked my new so im nine years old. Were brothers one. Here. This morning my names cause. Im sixteen because im from syria i was from morocco. Yes when the i was a member of Islamic State. Rights i was with them for two years. And i arrived in greece in february twenty sixth teen and i came here to start a new life to get away from the war and i know. That those are the same syria there were posters everywhere calling for jihad everywhere you went people were talking about jihad. A whole lot all my friends had already joined Islamic State at some point they won me over and i joined that and. There are special Training Camps for children knew that the age limit is sixteen and they call them the are. The columns of the caliphate. Since well they left. When we thought the news that the it was what the ship our group was in charge of coming through any areas seized by us. For them with what belonged to the thing as i asked continued its advance wed move in and home the captured sector. And. What that meant is that we slit the throats of anyone who belonged to the other side and whoever we found hiding how that would be and we set fire to and destroyed liquor shops and that was our job. I was. For a building or later i asked to be moved to the secret service and they agreed. Because of my age i was very useful to them i looked like a normal kid i would know where they were out to arrest someone they usually sent me together with another boy who went with me. In the summer will throw most of the arrests were possible because of our work. I really feel a little if i am suspected someone we watched their every move we kept tabs on their comings and goings. Especially on the show no house searches and arrests that was our brief away. What was the worst part for you. Get them from. Slitting peoples throats for instance there were whole you know and so many other things in florida where there were no here because of me people were killed and the man from my region was to capitated by us because of me. And others had their hands chopped off because of me. And you have so many you. Did you lead the life of a child or i want to know why i should have had another life. I was with them for almost three years and if it was an old life why daddy was there. I. First i was really happy to be with a five year. Old i generally gave us lots of little gifts. They take us for rides in their cars they said they take us anywhere we wanted we love them you can manage and have a. Bad lesson. They took us home and gave us pocket money they gave us money to brainwash us. They took us for rides and then brought us home. And we do sometimes they take us to the mosque and gave us white claims to where we are generally held back after prayers theyd close the mosque and gather all the children together. Bring us guns your way i dont have there was a switch with the spring youd have to press it and then thats how it opened in trouble the other kids have and they say to us good job. They gave us presence. Ive had am then the men would take us to the religious where we practiced firing at a tank even if you couldnt do it theyd kick you out of the group. That i will hi there. I dont. Have a i and you act what i liked best was training running with the gun and throwing myself to the ground from good death. Not going out the later i was sent to top because i stayed there for six or seven months. And then again but still it was a secret place just for children. Not even the airplanes couldnt spot it it was top secret having been. Having the locales. And there are no. I swore allegiance but then i started to cry and i wanted to go home. When asked but they didnt let me leave. They gave us swimming lessons and taught us how to take guns apart. We did all this training in tucker. Then they told me i was going to put on an explosive belt to blow myself up to. How many children were there at the center. About one hundred maybe one hundred fifty. Were six to ten years old. You can see my face right. This is the problem with yousef and is that their father doesnt take care of them. They live with me since they were small and. Theyre like my own children are those that are war. So. My name is so how dirty im from dad as or so im a member of the Free Syrian Army and i fight against i. Know i heard i asked was luring kids to the mosque and indoctrinating them you know that was when i asked began training a generation of child soldiers. Thats why i got them out of the country. Im looking after them now and trying to help them forget everything i asked put them through the film and. You know there are in the room children are very useful to i as in far more than an adult age twenty twenty five or thirty who knows who hes dealing with. Of the world are using children aged just four or five to kill people should be diligent about what this generation will survive. These children will be the successors of us collapses us about america when i ask disappears at least children will still be here and as adults they will rebuild Islamic State. Look. This is an example of what i asked does for the world assume this boy is four years old you know hes from there as sort. Of however. You will because hes about to kill a man a super man whos barely thirty. Or thirteen sort of. Looks and. Its been four years now since i asked began using child soldiers in just two more years the syrian children and i ss ranks will pose a real threat to the entire world. To. See i want my names omar im from here is or do i work for Islamic State as a teacher. So. There are any mision to educate the children. Its to train a generation of ready and willing fighters. With. The children are instilled with this ideology from an early age. That. Struck just about every subject from the curriculum arabic math and english and they focused exclusively on religion everything was geared towards motivating the children through propaganda videos Islamic State radio and stimulating drugs. But the key was propaganda they put screens up all over the place played martial music. You see. All these things had a huge influence on the children and they flocked to the already full camps there were so many children the camps were bursting at the seams and that influx continues to this day the truth of it for. The scenes of blood drenched in violence have become embedded in the childrens minds killing has become a normal part of daily life. Plus i dont feel anything anymore not even fear much of their immune to the most unbearable images from the start up i was there. The next fork my name is abu farraj i was a teacher india as orphans and i have been in turkey for a year. Still with other women that is. A man who when i asked arrived they took over all the schools as you know. That in the Software Problem of their curriculum for fourth and fifth graders was barely twenty pages long. Event for german but they illustrated math problems with photos of bombs pistols bullets and the like on your to do that almost all of. Them and how the no. Early on and i as education supervisor came to see us and said. Show me what youre teaching the children. We showed him our manual the official syrian curriculum. He looked at the chapter on insects and made fun of us. He asked us why are you teaching that to the children its going to mean i dont i asked laboratories instead so they can learn how to make explosives and bombs. Is another motive for doing what we carried on our work as if nothing had happened. I told my colleagues as long as we are alive well carry on. Then with the help of the his their Islamic Police they try to drive the adults out of town. Because their became a ghost town you know if you can when there were no men or women in the streets. Well people stayed home too scared to go outdoors. They were only children in the streets you know it was a very cunning idea because it gave i asked unhindered access to the children and bush. And. So they are actually made me stop teaching little after i fled i heard i asked had recruited many children. Afonso evolve home more than anything these children are victims. Victims of terrorism victims i asked how did a victims of the regime and victims of the war in syria. They are cannon fodder. I. Wonder if you know this is a religious event organized by i. A. S. Once a week they put up tents and the villages. And they held competitions there for children for kind of what is the war so they lure them with games mike tug of war for county and then they handed out gifts. In a can or my brother is special and the team went to. For because they were all on their own. The she wanted to do when you give us. The i. Was. The i was honest more young hopeful to get easy im a on and i come from dia as a lot of im twenty four and have been living in germany for two years later libby i have two brothers who still live in dad as are the shia whos ten and abdelkarim whos nine so its annoying. Since that. Night. Here in the home of. One of the reasons my brothers joined Islamic State is that they were home alone with no one to supervise them. And that. Kind of. Pollution will confuse your computers in addition confiscated all the televisions that created a vacuum. With no access to t. V. s or satellite dishes kids started watching i asked propaganda. If israel. Plus it all the schools were closed nothing to us made us more look at each other. On how to look along in the north in the shoe and show i suppose i sent them money to buy a laptop so by sheer could play video games and my mother took this video from the lobby can be told the local list doesnt feel doable how you feel. And she wanted to show. Me that theyre using the computer to watch i asked propaganda if it was for girlish at all how your photo comparison would look to share is see that show when in europe theyre watching and i as a media order in your home with even my youngest brother is watching out to have a. Little oh no yes you know theres a lovely. Oh no was it. A load. Of to go home or these are my Little Brothers playing here. And even the youngest. Under when i see this im at a loss for words are from the author i feel totally numb sure. Im still little but they said i was big enough to swear allegiance. I told them i was fourteen but i was only eight or eight and a half my mother said i was too young she didnt like Islamic State she said theyre liars youll see what theyll do with you brainwash you and that to them sitting at. Your women there they took children from their parents by force once a father came to ask for his son back then they told him he would have to join Islamic State to him about living the same i said in egypt i do my advantage and i do in a game where they said he would be whipped and that he could choose between forty or fifty lashes. After he had been whipped forty times they told him if you ever come back youll be sorry so he never came back my. Run again not on one day it was the one day school was cancelled. That they forced us to watch a thief punishment on. The us last year and killed him. You know him and his brother i feel whole. By default oh no she knew me they tied them up like this and now. They covered their faces with masks then they pulled their clothes off their shoulders and then they were drugged so they didnt put up a fight you would you just see me i then the fat executioner walked up with his sword i did he shouted what but god is great and then he chopped off one of their heads like this complete and warm and nice guy in the name of the Islamic State and he cut off his head and he tossed the head assigned. And then the body started to shake. In fear i swear i saw it all with my own eyes i saw it all. And now i am very afraid. One of us at the top mag when my parents make food for me and i dont feel hungry i feel sick all the time. And when i cant stand seeing stuff like that it gives me nightmares and the have that the action. From my name is up to. The other five hundred fifteen. So its the thought when i was thirteen when i joined Islamic State by each. Well i was so on the wall just there was a person who came from iraq sheikh Abu Mohammad Al baghdadi who are a love song he came to iraq to see us in the war he was from mosul hardly enough and not hardly died so we organized a competition to pick the best singer he was. Like daddy was also there but eventually in my song i addressed him from the oahu Mohamed Al Baghdadi before you have come to visit us i sang for him and i won the competition face it but im sorry. But the days of buy him so he gave me the prize. Oakland nine millimeter pistol and two hand grenades it was a great gift. I mean i should go on the last one of your i mean j. B. The singer is there to raise the fighter spirits and sure though when theyre on the front lines and they hear a song it boosts their morale. It gives them confidence and makes them feel important if the valar story should be with us how to show them. That i should come up over the children learn songs easily. If they concentrate a bit they quickly learn them by heart along with the older ones who are over twenty all they think about is fighting this if they dont feel like singing on the show that most of the members who sing are children who arent yet Strong Enough to fight it well i wont go for it its your life. Greatly for the record that you want to fight or sing which there is the edge of the guts and i want to fight. Why no i just wanted to go i was small i loved fighting in the sound bullets make as i did rifle shooting and thought it was fun for going to. See this. City to see you. John. Sit in to see all of. Them all over the island wanted to do it. Soon and force in on. My name is ahmad i come from iraq and im twenty six i fought for nusra front later i was forced to fight for i asks. Confirmed enough that i saw that i was always on the front we had kids with us eight to ten year olds and they found it hard to deal with the pressures of an offensive and mohammed would be some of them only a few said they wanted to go home to their parents as in the middle of the fighting. And they couldnt take the horror. Some cried and said i want to go home i have to get away from here one also took the innocent as her mother the other. One if there had to be additional. But most of the kids had volunteered and some were at the front without their parents knowledge and we didnt force anyone into it. At the ready. Made for Suicide Missions you have to swear allegiance and volunteer children are usually the ones used in these cases with the from the awful. Truth and so that i also saw adults behead adults. But numerous children volunteered to. All of us when they want to try it out but i dont have. The public now must have yellow and the heads of there are adults who ultimately refused to do it but they are punished. On as if youre ordered to do it and refused to slit someones throat and no and i would rather shoot them then youre either lashed put in jail you know or ostracized and those are things you know an overload of all that only out on the mind but it never goes further than that most of the while for the adults is it and i was told that this all thought as for the children and i think i never saw them forced into it and i dont see a lot of them even volunteered. And also for their professionals. Who knew what it would feel so i thought good my heart turned to stone. I was hard harder towards everyone my parents. Since. I also thiago towards my sister and in that i towards everyone. My entire family and i felt no pity for anyone else in a band. I mean with i avoided my parents so i wouldnt be around to see my mother breaking eye has rules and i didnt want them getting into trouble when the. Dont dont work in the job when we watched peoples throats were slit and didnt give a damn going to the heart turns black as we say and going to there was no longer any kindness in our hearts it was good luck if you saw your father break a rule you could turn him in or lock him up even though he was your own father and all. The laws said once i locked my brother up my house and gentle hadnt done anything wrong i just did it. Well first i moved i was completely aware of what i was doing. I got used to. Him that was normal i locked him up for tims you know with all that was normal. Question. Why did you flee. Well i think its hard for me to talk about it ive never told anyone when she stepped outside. I dont i had a friend who was executed by Islamic State law he was accused of being homosexual i dont want to go out all in the i tried to execute him by pushing him off a silo. But he survived the moment so you know highest siloed else. He was thrown off the top but he didnt die on the water so they had to finish the job can sell me that evening i had been visiting other friends and this was when i was an intelligence officer. Let me go as i was walking down the street when a car pulled up over saudi this guy rolled down his window and called out to me. With a look and so on was i went over to him and told him id been with friends were going to eat up to the cheese that i smelled of cigarettes. Done with the general view. I said so he was going to frisk me i said im going to get to see. One in a padded down my pockets. But i felt his hands touching me in a weird way then we gave additional there was something odd about what he was saying and doing yea. I felt really uncomfortable as he first me and knew he ordered me to get into the back of the car listless and he raped me. And i just i wasnt armed at the time close knee. For the most of my after that i hated