It was true we were now facing a totally new situation as the children had an endless number of questions because it is all physically possible to say 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 has to do the name for so long michelle esther it is a. Host. Of. 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 lost all trace of the propaganda video is the last time he was seen alive. Videos of this kind of designed by Islamic State to search 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 caliph its 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. This is he was once the center of the is edis 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 littered with dozens of mass graves. In center alone i was murdered some 10000 years edis thousands of women and girls were abducted raped and enslaved. I was also kidnapped young boys to enlist them as child soldiers. Is from center 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 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 explicit that 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 think its 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 and iraqi forces. How are you are you in good health thank goodness thank god. That theory is that there is. A funny. How you go. There. One of the divas consonance was recruited by ass and trained as a child soldier. Well you sit down with me. I was 13 when he and i think that he children were abducted and transported to rocker he asked while capital of the i asked counterfeits. Father received the type of minute tree drilling displayed in his propaganda video. That asked have you seen these videos that i asked sends to youngsters out of him actually as 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 the people you know. But you know. That is me there. Seen it before the match not at all thats 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 us this ones easy to hes dead. To this. Throughout the duration of his captivity for lived in fear of beatings brutal drills and violence after 5 months in the Training Camp the children were sent by us to the frontlines to rocka a leper. Traumatized the teenager is plagued by not mass 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. Work the room is all about 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 its not hard to kill a human being you shoot and hes dead a little. Fella escaped his eye as 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 but i asked. To talk formosas all fall 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. Because of you know their words to do the unthinkable. When the unthinkable is made possible so it triggers an enormous inner a dish that is easy to bring to the fore. Of course you all could sort of star yes you are. In flux you saw it 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 moral boundaries of course it would kill to schools. Child soldiers stripped of any normal sons of the reality are not a need for naaman and many extremist groups and most 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 think is that easier mentally to. Engage with and to convince. What was shocking for us was the amount of investment in children in the past of course we terrorist Organization Children are never at such an organized or not equipped because what they want is this army soldier so. I ask you. Mass rape to breed and cover a fighters terrorizing an entire ethnic group. Was only 14 when my 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 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. 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 ny is 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 ask is totally defeated they view the child is their own and i 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. 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. 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 the polian pursued this strategy so did the nazis if women had to produce a lot of children the same is true of ai yes. But unlike the nazis who were seeking racial purity. Yes is pursuing an agenda of ideological and religious purity the dept of thing do they think it will do you with i have got the eggs out of sunday off the fish and should say this is 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. Instead of the modena to do an article for you judge in your pants. It 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 their social environment. Suitable she says. Its inevitable every child grows up immersed in the world view of their parents and protectors you know its on the experience life as a. Good man that that amount yeah. Its a snap to this and this is an awful mysteriously 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 the cool you dont just learn from books or in school you learn everything from the people you love. Not gotten. Selfhood is the childs brain is shaped by those peoples words attitudes and series of. 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 as 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 asked for answers. 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 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. Hes practically. Did you enjoy learning all these things know. A. Little of. Both of the language of totalitarianism always resorts to the same pattern it starts with the words infidels or unbeliever triggering an Automatic Process that always ends with death. And the next level introduces the word blasphemy you ridicule and insult my god there is 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 behead it because then eventually what that setting the precedent for is beheading is ok and its fun and something to do with your friends that you are to enjoy it i would venture when you reach a certain age the beheading becomes of a person i am to you are asked to behead people. With. The premise you also get these i mean what is this for you they want they want to feed us all this. If all this is up then as well i mean all this is a bit of 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 for seem to be along the form. Of. 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. Oh here is this man and she had her and i asked i am this is their flag. With his guy. Is this your scorn in syria. Now in iraq. What did they teach you that. The quran and other stuff. Just as if the english 95th stage once i was in a 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. His body fell down. She couldnt have a national heres the thing. Jack 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 model dont look. Good 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 the 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 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 a life in freedom. Could 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 guess. I was never afraid something would happen to me until the end we did what we could to oppose these people and find 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 People as a refugee just like herself. Under Islamic State the children were never allowed to learn the subjects lina teachers. And theyre going to do that you dont want me i dont think you know you care. If theyre going to have it out here. Its hard 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 lenas colleagues are dead or have gone into exile like myself 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. 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 fed that kids who were 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. In. High school we had about 200 pupils. I fear a portion of those will have joined ah yes voluntarily by now either out of ignorance or because they are 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 that 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 did not 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. They are 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 that last several months. To dont when theyre being forced to be vigilant at all times which is highly stressful. Theyre never allowed to relax us both a peaceable position. At the end of the training there is a Graduation Party of sorts but amid growing aietes losses all the children have really become is cheap cannon fodder. To eat. The south proclaimed i a scottish began losing ground in iraq in syria after the battle of mosul in late 2016 i. Lete. I asked commanders then increasingly began to send children to the front a truly perfidious tactic. This was a lawful if you see a kid with a machine gun just like before you realize what youre seeing your dad tells us its a type of terror seeing children in such unimaginable situations of assault. On the ground i asked was declared defeated in march 2019. But underground it still plots terror attacks some with the help of children this propaganda video shows a boy steering a vehicle to overtake a military conv