Syrian NGO warns 145 Kurdish students at risk
18 June, 19:36
Syrian children [ARCHIVE MATERIAL]
(ANSAmed) - BEIRUT - The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights
(SOHR) warned on Wednesday that the 145 Kurdish elementary students
kidnapped on May 29 in northern Syria by jihadists were at risk of being
brainwashed and used in suicide attacks. The NGO blamed the abduction
on the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), which controls vast
swathes of northeastern Syria and which last week launched an offensive
in northern Iraq with the declared intention of creating a transnational
'Caliphate'. The London-based human rights organization, which uses a
large network of informers inside Syria to collect information, the
children were taken hostage on the road between Aleppo and Manbej on
their way to their hometown Kobani, after taking year-end exams in
regime-held areas of Aleppo. Some residents of Kobani have expressed
concerns that the children might be brainwashing into sacrificing their
lives in suicide attacks. Five of the children - who managed to escape -
have said that they had received lectures from their kidnappers ''on
jihad against God's enemies and apostates''. In late May, ISIS kidnapped
193 other Kurdish civilians between the ages of 17 and 70 in the town
of Qubasin, near Al-Bab in the Aleppo province. ISIS, which includes
many foreign fighters in its ranks and among its leaders, is fighting in
Syria both against the regime and against other rebel groups including
Jabhat Al-Nusra, an Al-Qaeda affiliate. ISIS was also initially part of
Al-Qaeda but later broke away from it. In the areas under its control it
has imposed harsh rules and corporal punishment inspired by traditional
Islamic law. It bans alcohol and smoking and forces women to wear
niqabs or full Islamic veils in public. (ANSAmed).
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