Bush mock 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 county fairs. And 2015 schoolchildren in the french city of toulouse spotted a classmate in irans propaganda video. Clearly 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 thats right john in the video. Before what years ago most of all many theyd recognize their classmate and his stepfather unmistakeably. It dont call for why and then you see the child taking aim and killing a prisoner. Not that he murders the hostages as you know that. At the time ron was 12 years old but schaffel french schoolboy turned into a cold blooded killer. And it dont get dismissed you dont get drawn up for 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. That. 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. I think. Some of them asked if he can murder a human being intrinsically evil. Is he a monster as he did as a name for so long michel as he does and. A host. 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 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 terror in the west by raising the specter of a new generation of merciless forces. 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 internment 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 more among the longest held i as territories this is all that remains of syndrome. The city was once a center of the is 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 was murdered some 10000 years edis thousands of women and girls were abducted raped and slaved. I also kidnapped young boys to enlist them as child soldiers. Is from sandra she managed to flee when i as fighters captured the city in the summer of 2014 but 71 members of her extended family were trapped by troops of the socalled caliph it and were 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. Plus if it is 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 i said playing 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. A lot about. How the 1000. 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 under iraqi forces. How are you are you in good health thank goodness thank god. That theory that 2. I thought we. 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. Father was 13 when he and others he children were abducted and transported to rocca the erstwhile capital of the i asked counterfeit. Father received the type of minute tree drilling displayed in his propaganda video. Basket have you seen these videos that i asked sense to youngsters. Yes they filmed one of them in our camp it shows boys marching in uniform. Theyre all wearing hats about 70 or 80 kids in total. And ill. Just do it he. Does. It out of you know you know. But you know when i was a little boy. That is me there. Seen it before. Not until that point thats right in front of me. This boy here is a u. C. D. So is this one but him his sister and mother are also with i. A. S. This ones easy to hes dead. Since. 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 ass to the frontlines to rocka aleppo. 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 are there you have to go to jail or to war and leave your mother you have no choice its no life. The room is on but ive seen a lot of brutality a lot of bad things it doesnt even scare me if i as fighters 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. Fella escaped his eye his captors 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 into killing. Sheens 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. In other words to do the unthinkable. When the unthinkable is made possible. It triggers an enormous in or a dish thats easy to bring to the fore its the 1st sort of star you see. In flux and once children are psychologically confused its easy for malevolent adults to groom them into soldiers up on a. Busy day in the city if we call them monsters to protect ourselves unfortunately it has to be said that theyre children like our own. Except that theyre forced to abandon their own moral boundaries as i see the school. Child soldiers stripped about enormous sums of monetary are not a need for nominate many extremist groups and those children for armed combat. But i ask this reliance on children to fill its ranks from 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 think 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 weve seen terrorist Organization Children never at such an organized way because what they want is this army century soldier. I asked used mass rape to bring to a new culture of finances terrorizing an entire ethnic group. Was only 14 when like countless using the women im 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 would tell him what diana 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 been done after about 20 days i realised 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 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 now 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 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. A. 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. Guys best i could yes whats his name. And i wanted to give him a z d name but i wasnt allowed his name is. Do you remember what he looks like yes. 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 i yes. But unlike the nazis who were seeking racial purity. Yes is pursuing an agenda of ideological and religious purity feel good lets hope they do each image of god being exiled on sunday off the fish and chips and dresses it doesnt matter to them whether its a chechen arab or german who is joining the jihad or a smiling blue eyed frenchman from normandy. As long as he it hears to their religious ideology. And straight up in the medina to do an article for the judge in young plants. Which was 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. Saddam pushes in. Its inevitable every child grows up immersed in the world view of their parents and protectors its on the experience life as. Good as any there are in any amount. Of its basis look to the senate to 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 3. Different child learns to hate 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 will do all. 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 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 asked francis. 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 eye is indoctrination has impacted the way they think and talk. Why did the bad men want to kill you. Because they were unbelievers. Are very bad evil people. They dont pray or read the koran. Gave back. To you did you enjoy learning all these things no. Good the language of totalitarianism always resorts to the same pattern it starts with the words infidel for unbeliever triggering an Automatic Process that always ends with death or. The next level introduces the word blasphemy. You ridicule and insult my god there is no greater crime i am indignant and outrage. 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 a precedent for spearheading is ok and its fun i mean something to do with your friends i used to enjoy it ill eventually when you reach a certain age the beheading becomes of a person you are asked to behead people. Is seen. In this feel secure how do. They want to. In polish it is a as well i mean all this is all a bit of it isnt it a little while in kuala. But school for the cubs of the caliph it ends at the age of 9 and the curriculum is based soley on the principles of jihad force the name alice 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. We know is this man and that she had and i asked i am this is their flag. With his guy. Is this your school in syria you know in iraq. What did they teach you that. The quran and other stuff. Just as he english 90. 1 said was in a school yard 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 could have a national. Jag 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 im a little little. 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 and make sure that were going to school. Uniforms should 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 the child becomes older what theyre taught in the family that what theyre doing is good and justified only becomes awful fied 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 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 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 and subjects banned by ass. And i should have 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 lot. Today her syrian peoples are refugees just like herself. Under Islamic State the children were never allowed to learn the subjects lina teaches. There she wanted to pull the pin that you dont want me i dont think you know you cant be. Kids are going to. Cut you know. The aisles 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 lenas colleagues are dead or have gone into exile like a self and her brother gus one is also a teacher. 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 and 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 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 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 i. Said many of 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 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 and again their basic training and weapons and military tactics that last several months. Dont mean little theyre being forced to be vigilant at all times which is highly stressful. Theyre never allowed to relax us off that piece of a 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. To eat. The south proclaimed i asked 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. With us o