Over 50 ISIL recruits killed in 2015 in Syria: Report
More than 50 children recruited by the ISIL terror group to fight alongside its Takfiri members in Syria have been killed since the beginning of 2015, a report says.
The so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said on Wednesday that documents show the deaths of 52 child recruits under the age of 16.
The children had been part of ISIL’s so-called “Cubs of the Caliphate” program that provides military training to kids living in ISIL-held areas in Syria, the UK-based group added.
Blasts, clashes and airstrikes have killed up to 31 of the underage ISIL militants so far in July.
The Takfiri group uses child combatants to guard checkpoints or gather intelligence; however, there has been an increase in the number of children employed to execute prisoners or conduct bomb attacks.
So far, in 2015, ISIL has also used 18 children to carry out bombings.
“This shows that Daesh (ISIL) is exploiting the suffering of the Syrian people,” said the Observatory’s head, Rami Abdel Rahman, adding that when a child accepts to conduct such an attack, it shows that “he’s been completely brainwashed.”
The Observatory added that it has unconfirmed reports about the deaths of dozens more children.
Earlier this month, spokesman for Iraqi Kurdistan’s Democrat Party, Saeed Mamuzini, said the ISIL terrorists had abducted 111 schoolchildren from various districts of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul to use them in terrorist moves.
According to the Iraqi official, the abducted children, mostly aged between 10 to 15 years, were transferred to ISIL’s educational and military centers for brainwashing.
Since the beginning of this year, the ISIL Takfiri group has reportedly recruited more than 1,100 children.
Syria has been battling foreign-sponsored militants since March 2011. The violence fueled by Takfiri terrorist groups has so far left over 230,000 people dead and forced million to escape.
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