’ISIL’ Recruited 400 Children since January
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"ISIL" has recruited at least 400 children in Syria in the past three months and given these so-called "Cubs of the Caliphate" military training and hardline indoctrination.
One such young boy appeared in a video early this month shooting dead an accused by "ISIL" of being as spy. A French police source said the boy might be the half-brother of Mohamed Merah.
"They use children because it is easy to brainwash them. They can build these children into what they want, they stop them from going to school and send them to "ISIL" schools instead," said Rami Abdulrahman, head of the so-called British-based Observatory.
The group may be resorting to children because it has been having difficulties recruiting adults since the start of the year, with only 120 joining its ranks, Abdulrahman said.
This was partly due to tighter controls on the Turkish border, where foreign fighters tend to enter, he added.
"ISIL" has encouraged parents to send children to training camps or has recruited them without their parents' consent, often luring them with money.
At the training camps, the children learn to fire live ammunition, fight in battles and to drive. "ISIL" also recruits children as informants and as guards for its headquarters as well as welcoming children with birth defects into its ranks.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
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