To shape the selfstyled Islamic State has been defeated militarily but its propaganda videos are still circulating on the internet. Many featured child soldiers undergoing training. Numberings coerced into killing and dying for the caliphate. In 2015 schoolchildren in the french city of toulouse spotted a classmate in an eye as propaganda video. Today should it was or not 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 the video theyd watched. Fit of walk. Interview. Easy they said yeah thats right john in the video. For what years ago most of all never 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 yeah and he murders a hostage as you know that. At the time ron was 12 years old the chair for french schoolboy had turned into a cold blooded killer. And it dont get dismissed you dont get drunk for 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. For us about who said we couldnt deal with Something Like this on our own so we called in a team of doctors and psychologists she to 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. 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 several initial esther 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 dead 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 designed by Islamic State to search 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 caliphates to feature 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 were among the longest held i. A. S. Territories this is all that remains of cinder. The city was once the center of the years e. D. s 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 littered with dozens of mass graves. In center alone i asked murdered some 10000 years eightys thousands of women and girls were abducted raped and slaved. I also kidnapped young boys to enlist them as child soldiers. Is from central 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 different and if into. The front 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 my siblings 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 i was troops after the intervention of kurdish under iraqi forces. How are you are you in good health thank goodness thank god that theater and that 2. Funny. Are you well. That one of the divas causeless was recruited by ass and trained as a child soldier. Will you sit down with me. Follow was 13 when he and others he children were abducted and transported to iraq or the erstwhile capital of the i asked counterfeit. Father received the type of minute tree drilling displayed in his propaganda video. That asked have you seen these videos that i had sense to youngsters out of him actually 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 you. Cant do it even. One of the people 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. As to this. Throughout the duration of his captivity father 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 front lines to rocka aleppo. Traumatized the teenager is plagued by nightmares and finds it hard to talk about what he went through. All of them 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. The womans honor 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 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 for i asked. To talk formosas all 4 who turned 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. You know their words to do the unthinkable you must get the bubbles you do when the unthinkable is made possible so it triggers an enormous inner rage that is easy to bring to the fore. Of course you all could 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 oughta be. Leading the city if 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 as i see it would kill to schools. Child soldiers stripped about enormous sums of monetary are not a new phenomenon many extremist groups in the us children for armed combat but i ask this 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 put in children in the past of course recent terrorist organization should never end it such an organized lot of quickly because what they want is this honest interest so. I ask you. Mass rape to breed 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 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. We had to stay with them for 3 days they killed some of us raped us did unspeakable things to us. Saying yes but. 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 as 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. I wanted to give him a z. T. 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 asked his 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. Yes is pursuing an agenda of ideological and religious purity theyll do good actual thing they were such evil jews i got me and i designed a sunday off going out to fish and chips and this is 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. In st oh you know madonna is doing a sequel to your kin your thoughts. It was really in the. 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. See them push here. Its inevitable every child grows up immersed in the world view of their parents and protectors you know its on the experience life as. Good as i need them believe that. Its a societal new thing thats easy and awful its very easy to turn a child into a fanatic because its forming its 1st memories when synapses are connecting to the brain. And 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. The self is a 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 new bones jihadist 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 isis. Sama and has now left their home in paris in 2014 and were taken by their mother and stepfather and i asked fica 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. Did you enjoy learning all these things know. The. Good 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. 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 briley just 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 president forced beheading is ok and its fun and its something you do with your friends and you to enjoy it i would venture when you reach a certain age the beheading becomes of a person you are asked to behead people. Will see was awful but is he also you how do you think. It what they want to see a pleasure. This is a pen as well i mean all this is all that a very 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 the hunt for seeing him as beyond being 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 here and i asked i am this is their flag. With that guy. Is this your school in syria you know in iraq. What did they teach you that. The quran and other stuff. Just as if the english 19 he says he 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 as she could have a national healing. Jab majnun 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 a few 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 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 the Mother Tongue they were highly aggressive pulling insults and unveiled women all men he 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 for the socalled Islamic State school is solely a Production Facility for fanatics many regular teachers went into exile. Lena 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 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 whole lot. Today her syrian peoples are refugees just like herself. Under Islamic State the children were never allowed to learn the subjects lina teaches. But theres your binary i dont want to do that you dont want me i dont think you know you care. If youre going to have an ok ok. But you know. The i asked curriculum abolished subjects like philosophy and social studies it revised 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 and dead who have gone into exile like a self and her brother gus one who is also a teacher. I was for them 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 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. And. Many of these here are 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 doubt and can make a decision enjoys a degree of freedom these children dont experience that they learn there is just one truth thoroughly. 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. And i saw in 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 but 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 eye is losses all the children have really become its cheap cannon fodder. To eat. The south proclaimed i asked counterfeits began losing ground in iraq in syria after the battle of mosul in late 2016 i. Lete. I asked co