ISIS Teaching Abducted Children How To Chop Off People's Heads And Catch Them
A harrowing video featuring a young boy has surfaced, revealing that ISIS teaches abducted children how to kill people by beheading them.
In the video believed to have been filmed in Kurdistan, a seven-year-old Yazidi boy that ISIS is understood to have held captive for 30 months shares how ISIS taught him to kill people, Rudaw reported.
"We would carry arms and fire – sometimes to the left side and sometimes to the right," the young boy said. "We would disassemble and assemble the rifles."
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"Then they taught us how to behead, catch heads and then chop it off with a knife," he added.
The young boy was reportedly captured by ISIS along with his mother but the two later became separated. He is believed to have been taken captive when ISIS attacked Sinjar in Iraq in 2014, the Daily Mail reported. The attack left thousands of Yazidis dead and many of the women were forced to marry ISIS fighters.
The young boy's mother, also in the video, said ISIS abducts young children so that they can train them for combat. To date more than 1,000 Yazidi children have been given military training at three ISIS bases, the footage claims.
A government official, speaking in the video, said ISIS lets abducted children undergo a "very organized" instruction that includes religious education and weapons training. Khairi Botani, head of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), said in February that ISIS brainwashes these children and indoctrinates them "theoretically and practically" in the Islamic Sharia and Jihad.
These children are successfully brainwashed to the point that they convert from their religion and even change their names. At the end of the training, they are skilled in handle weapons, the use of car bombs, and how terrorist attacks are carried out.
Government officials fear these brainwashed children are walking time bombs that ISIS can deploy anywhere around the world at any time. Botani said they could be sent to Europe or Germany, or perhaps any nation in the world and therefore need to be freed and "defused" in order to save them and prevent possible attacks from happening.
The video suggests this process of "defusing" is not straightforward as the 7-year-old boy featured in the video is reportedly having a hard time reintegrating into his family and has even forgotten his native language. For the families, they face the challenge of removing the influences of ISIS from their children.
