Bush am on 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 i. R. S. Propaganda video. Should it was a master on march 12th i received a call from the school psychologist. She said we had kids here crying. I quickly realized the children were in shock because of a video theyd watched. You know if you do you. They said yeah thats right leon in the video. For what years of full measure 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 and he murders a hostage as you know that. At the time ron was 12 years old the chair for french schoolboy turned into a cold blooded killer. Dont just wish list you dont do turn up so that we could barely believe it but it was true we were now facing a totally new situation as the children had an endless number of questions. To us about so we couldnt deal with Something Like this on our own so we called in a team of doctors and psychologists she could get. This awful 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 the best he did or the name for so long michel as he does and. A host i think. 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 designed by Islamic State to start in the west by raising the specter of a new generation of merciless fighters. Recruited and trained by the Jihadist Group these children say western intelligence agencies pose a serious danger. Even after the caliphates 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 cinderella. The city was once the center of the years e. D. s an ethnic minority targeted by ass in 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 also kidnapped young boys to enlist them as child soldiers. Is from center she managed to flee when i its fighters captured the city in the summer of 2014 but 71 members of her extended family were trapped 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 lost relatives. Was very different 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 im far from my family my parents my sibling 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 where a lot of our. House one does not have. 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 iraqi forces. How are you are you in good health thank goodness thank god thats. All that theyre 2. Funny. Are you well you know. One of the divas causeless was recruited by ass and trained as a child soldier. Will you sit down with me. Father was 13 when he and other children were abducted and transported to rocca the asked while capital of the i ask our. Father received the type of minute tree drilling displayed in his propaganda video games. That have you seen these videos that i had sense to youngsters. Out of him actually yes they filmed the one of them in our camp it shows boys marching in uniform. Theyre all wearing hats about 70 or 80 kids in total is just about. To do it he. Does. It out of you know you know. But you know when i was a little boy. That is me there. Just seen it before thats not at all that point thats right in front of me. 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 is 82 hes dead. As to this. Throughout the duration of his captivity funnel lived in fear of beatings brutal drills and violence after 5 months in the Training Camp the children were sent by i asked to the frontlines to rocka a leper. Traumatized the teenager is plagued by nightmares and finds it hard to talk about what he went through. Them a little says 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 now. The room is on a bed 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 thats not hard to kill a human being you shoot and hes dead a little. Fellow escaped his eye his 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 for we turn children. Theyre 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. Because you know their words to do the unthinkable. Get the problems you do when the unthinkable is made possible so it triggers an enormous inner rage that is easy to bring to the fore associated of course you welcome your sort of star yes you are. In flux and once children are psychologically confused its easy for malevolent adults to groom them into soldiers of. The day to suggest 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 own moral boundaries as i see the schools. Also just stripped of any normal sense of the run of t. M. Most a new phenomenon many extremist groups in the us 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 dont is that easier mentally to. Engage with and to convince. What was shocking for us was the amount of investment put in children in the past of course we see terrorist Organization Children never at such an organized demotic with the kids what they want is this army its future soldiers. I ask used mass rape to bring to a new culture of fighters terrorizing an entire ethnic group. Was only 14 when like countless u. C. D. Women and girls she was abducted and forced into sexual slavery she was raped over and over again ultimately she was forced to marry and i asked fighter. We had to sit on the floor in front of them 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 because. 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. I only agreed to take care of the baby so i wouldnt be given to another man. And 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 as back in school but she is haunted by 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 asked 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 i. R. S. 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. As best i could yes whats his name. And i wanted to give him a z. T. 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 asked 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 before women had to produce a lot of children the same is true of is. But unlike the nazis who were seeking racial purity the u. S. Is pursuing an agenda of ideological and religious purity theyll do thats a thing to do such images ive got the lead sound of sunday off going out to fish and chips and christmas 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 think and feel intimate enough to do an article for the judge in your class. It was written. From the moment that bone 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 to. Its inevitable every child grows up immersed in the world view of their parents and protectors he would sound the experience life as a. Good man eat. Eat and eat a hot tea yes. Its nice to see the truth and the see an awful its very easy to turn a child into a fanatic because its forming its 1st memories when synapses are connecting to the brain. Paula 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 of course you dont just learn from books or in school you learn everything from the people you love not gotten. Yourself 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 isnt shrines in all aspects of daily life. Even in baby announcements. Props like a kalashnikov or hand grenades hail the newborns jihad is destiny. Anti coloring books filled with various types of military equipment turning weapons of war into normal everyday objects for children growing up among i as fighters. Selma and has now left their 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 ayers indoctrination has impacted the way they thank them talk. Why did the bad men want to kill you. Because they were unbelievers. Are very bad evil people if they dont pray or read the koran. And gave it. To me did you enjoy learning all these things no. Both of 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. So the next level introduces the word blasphemy you ridicule and insult my god theres 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 head it because then eventually what that setting the precedent for spearheading is ok and its fun and its something to do with your friends that are new to enjoy it and eventually when you reach a certain age the beheading becomes of a person i do you are asked to behead people. Is seen as awful but it is he also had these results for you call it what they want see. If. It. Is all. But school for the cops of the caliph it ends at the age of 9 and the curriculum is based soley on the principles of jihad for seem to be a lot. Simon and don were just 4 years old when i asked occupied 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 she had her lyeth thailand this is their slack. With his gun. Is this your school in syria now now in iraq. What did they teach of all the quran and other stuff i learned i usually just ask if the english 95th stage once i was in the 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 you. His body fell down as she couldnt have a national. Thing. Jad imagine 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 because our money would only just. That it is awful 1st 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 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 take me with you the others on here yet we have to wait. Now as a child becomes older what theyre taught in the family that what theyre doing is good and justified only becomes awful fired 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 positions and reunited with their family in iraqi kurdistan. By that time simon and i had forgotten their Mother Tongue they were highly aggressive hurling 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 the horrific experiences and return to school and the life and freedom. Just put a socalled Islamic State school is soley a Production Facility for fanatics many regular teachers went into exile. Lina is a teacher threatened by us and 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. And i should have had 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 had a lot. Today her Syrian People as a refugee just like herself. Under Islamic State the children were never allowed to learn the subjects lina teaches. But theres you by now i think one of them that you dont want me i dont deny or care. If theyre going to. Cut you know. The i asked curriculum abolished subjects like philosophy and social studies it revise 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 his colleagues are dead or have gone into exile like a self and her brother gus one is also a teacher. And. I was for. Its terrible education was always a ray of hope for us. I taught middle and high school we had about 200 pupils. I fear a portion of those will have joined i guess voluntarily by now either out of ignorance or because theyre poor and need money. We had hoped the young generation would build a better country but after i asked his conquests i fear for their future. The fed kids who are 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. 6000000 of these 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 doubt and can make a decision enjoys a degree of freedom from these children dont experience that they learn there is just one truth thirdly. 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. Theyre not allowed to have a family or home outside of the Training Camps. For large camps have been known to exist in iraq and soren syria and in mosul and telephone 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 at last several months. To dont make needles theyre being forced to be vigilant at all times which is highly stressful. Theyre never allowed to relax us book off the peaceable pussy. 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. To eat. The selfproclaimed i ask our fish began los