Islamic State Made Child Hostages Watch Beheadings, Group Says
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Kurdish school children were tortured
by Islamic State militants and forced to watch videos of
beheadings during their detention in the besieged Syrian border
town of Kobani, Human Rights Watch said.
Islamic State freed 25 Kurdish school children on Oct. 29, the last of more than 150 children kidnapped by the militant group as they returned from taking exams in the city of Aleppo.
The hostages, aged 14 to 16, were beaten with a hose and electric cables when they “did poorly in compulsory religious lessons, or did anything else perceived by their captors as misbehaving,” the New York-based advocacy group said in a report, citing interviews with four of the freed children in Turkey.
The al-Qaeda breakaway group has been attacking Kobani near the Turkish border for more than six weeks, seeking to expand the caliphate it has declared in Iraq and Syria. The group is reported to have killed children in a number of attacks against ethnic minorities in the territory it controls, and sought to indoctrinate others.
One child was strung up from the ceiling with his hands tied behind his back after he was caught outside his room, Human Rights Watch quoted one of the released hostage as saying.
To contact the reporter on this story: Salma El Wardany in Cairo at selwardany@bloomberg.net
To contact the editors responsible for this story: Andrew J. Barden at barden@bloomberg.net Jack Fairweather, Mark Williams
Islamic State freed 25 Kurdish school children on Oct. 29, the last of more than 150 children kidnapped by the militant group as they returned from taking exams in the city of Aleppo.
The hostages, aged 14 to 16, were beaten with a hose and electric cables when they “did poorly in compulsory religious lessons, or did anything else perceived by their captors as misbehaving,” the New York-based advocacy group said in a report, citing interviews with four of the freed children in Turkey.
The al-Qaeda breakaway group has been attacking Kobani near the Turkish border for more than six weeks, seeking to expand the caliphate it has declared in Iraq and Syria. The group is reported to have killed children in a number of attacks against ethnic minorities in the territory it controls, and sought to indoctrinate others.
One child was strung up from the ceiling with his hands tied behind his back after he was caught outside his room, Human Rights Watch quoted one of the released hostage as saying.
To contact the reporter on this story: Salma El Wardany in Cairo at selwardany@bloomberg.net
To contact the editors responsible for this story: Andrew J. Barden at barden@bloomberg.net Jack Fairweather, Mark Williams
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