ISIS is good at one thing: committing war crimes.
Earlier this month, Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) video footage apparently showed a child—who looks no older than 14—shooting a man accused of spying in the forehead on a grassy hillside. Also in March, it was reported that a 13-year-old French boy became the youngest ISIS fighter to die in Syria.
And before that, ISIS also published a video of young children partaking in military drills as a bearded instructor tells them what to do.
Adding to ISIS’s list of human rights violations and war crimes, an activist group on Tuesday said that ISIS has already recruited 400 child soldiers in 2015.
The child soldiers are apparently active in Syria, the U.K.-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights told Reuters on Tuesday in an exclusive report.
The so-called Cubs of the Caliphate are used because children are easy to brainwash, said Rami Abdulrahman, the head of the Observatory. “They use children because it is easy to brainwash them. They can build these children into what they want, they stop them from going to school and send them to IS schools instead,” he told Reuters.
