{"id":30526,"date":"2015-12-05T17:29:36","date_gmt":"2015-12-05T11:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sabguru.com\/?p=30526"},"modified":"2015-12-05T17:29:36","modified_gmt":"2015-12-05T11:59:36","slug":"is-training-video-shows-children-killing-captives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sabguru.com\/news\/is-training-video-shows-children-killing-captives\/","title":{"rendered":"IS \u2018training video\u2019 shows children killing captives"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_30527\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30527\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30527\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sabguru.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/isu.jpg\" alt=\"IS \u2018training video\u2019 shows children killing captives\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sabguru.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/isu.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.sabguru.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/isu-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sabguru.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/isu-343x200.jpg 343w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30527\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">IS \u2018training video\u2019 shows children killing captives<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>BEIRUT,\u00a0<\/strong>THE Islamic State (IS) group on Friday posted online a gruesome video showing six of its child soldiers killing Syrian security forces held captive by the jihadists.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nTitled \u201cTo the Sons of Jews,\u201d the slickly-produced video shows dozens of boys, who appeared to be about 10 years old, studying religious texts and learning hand-to-hand combat.IS\u2019s \u201cCubs of the Caliphate\u201d programme provides intense military and religious training to children throughout the group\u2019s areas of control in Syria.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nSix of the boys are chosen by their instructor to \u201csend a message\u201d to IS\u2019s opponents by executing security forces held by the group. In the video, each of the six selected boys is depicted individually running through a crumbling fortress, with dramatic music and grim action shots, until he finds a captive.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nAlthough child soldiers have been typically used to man checkpoints or gather intelligence, IS has been increasingly using them to execute prisoners.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nFootage appears of each captive giving his name, his year of birth and describing his role in the security forces or in pro-Government militia. The boys are then each shown killing the captives. Five are shot to death, and one has his throat slit. The video\u2019s introduction said it was shot in \u201cWilayat al-Kheir,\u201d IS\u2019s name for Syria\u2019s eastern Deir Ezzor province.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nAccording to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group, IS has recruited more than 1,100 children since the beginning of 2015, and more than 50 have been killed. \u201cWhat is striking is they\u2019re not hiding it, they\u2019re flaunting it,\u201d Nadim Houry, deputy Middle East and North Africa director at Human Rights Watch,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\u201cTheir use of child soldiers<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>is part of a broader indoctrination effort&#8230; They keep talking about how they\u2019ll be the new generation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIRUT,\u00a0THE Islamic State (IS) group on Friday posted online a gruesome video showing six of its child soldiers killing Syrian security forces held captive by the jihadists. Titled \u201cTo the Sons of Jews,\u201d the slickly-produced video shows dozens of boys, who appeared to be about 10 years old, studying religious texts and learning hand-to-hand combat.IS\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30527,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2530,6057],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sabguru.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30526"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sabguru.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sabguru.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabguru.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabguru.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabguru.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabguru.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sabguru.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabguru.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabguru.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}