Report: ’ISIL’ Abducts, Recruits, and Trains Children to Behead

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Children, after being abducted or recruited by "ISIL", were sent to training camps where they are taught to execute people by watching videos of previous beheadings and then practicing the act on dolls. This is according to new reporting based on interviews with children who had escaped the group, and with people involved in trying to counsel and reintegrate those escapees.

The report indicates that "ISIL" seems intent on raising a new generation of militants using the young, and usually without the consent of the children's parents.

Abducted children, like those taken from towns attacked by "ISIL", were moved to reeducation camps where, after being stripped of their religion and cultural identities, they are trained to become Takfiri fighters.

Furthermore, the Takfiri group also recruits boys from "ISIL"-held areas and in refugee camps, using gifts, threats, and brainwashing to draw the children in, even to the point that the kids subsequently turn on their parents.

Once recruited, the boys were steeped in extremist ideology, given physical training, taught to fire weapons they can sometimes barely handle, and coached to become militant fighters, suicide bombers, and executioners, using videos and hands-on instruction.

In fact, the children had all been shown videos of beheadings and told by their "ISIL" trainers that they would perform one someday.

First, they had to practice technique. Then, more than 120 boys were each given a doll and a sword and told, cut off its head.

The report cited the case of a 14-year-old identified as Yahya, who was among the boys all abducted from Iraq's Izadi religious population, said he couldn't cut it right. He chopped once, twice, three times.

"Then they taught me how to hold the sword, and they told me how to hit. They told me it was the head of the infidels," Yahya said.

The report further points out that "ISIL" claimed to own hundreds of these camps used to train and indoctrinate the children.

Nonetheless, the so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights had documented "at least 1,100 Syrian children under 16 who joined "ISIL" this year. At least 52 were killed in fighting, including eight suicide bombers."

Last week, the terror group released new footage showing a boy decapitating a Syrian soldier under the supervision of an adult.

The "ISIL" had gained notoriety for its barbarity, heinous atrocities, and sacrilegious acts.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team