ISIS’s official media wing in Iraq’s Dijla province released a new
video Wednesday that boasts the terror group’s boy fighters and ups the
ante of a bellicose propaganda campaign championing child soldiers.
The video, called “The Cubs of Dijla” in a reference to the young
boys being indoctrinated and groomed to fight, shows children as the
clip’s primary speakers. They deliver monologues and recite versus
of the Quran, marking the first time the Islamic State has
depicted boys—one as young as three—speaking at length directly into the
camera.
“Where are the martrys? Where are the suicide attackers?” a young boy
asks, urging Muslims and Arabs to stop talking and start acting. “Give
me my weapon,” he declares as he grabs a gun almost as long as his body.
He later fires the rifle.
The troubling nine-and-a-half minute clip also pictures children in a
classroom sitting at desks and listening to a lecture on Sharia law.
It then shifts outdoors, where the same children are depicted in
military fatigues performing training exercises with rifles.
The video’s release follows a string of Islamic State killings recently carried out by kids—part of the group’s wider push to aggressively and systematically exploit children.
http://www.vocativ.com/news/214441/isis-champions-child-soldiers-in-new-video/
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