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Most are between 15 and 17 years old. Most are Syrian, but there are kids from 20 different countries. Almost all have belonged to the so-called lion cubs of the caliphate, children who have been forced to fight, shoot and murder for the IS terrorist movement. Syrian Bashar was only 12 years old when he cut the throat of a man in Raqqa square.
– I didn’t have a sword, they gave me a normal knife and they had told me where to put the incision in my neck. I just did it. I thought that was fine. They said the man I cut his throat had killed my brother. They filmed it for propaganda purposes and the video is used in the trial against me, says Bashar.
There is a lot of skepticism among the Kurds towards the remorse shown by the boys here. They have learned to lie, they say, it is not possible to rehabilitate them.
– Of course I can’t see into their hearts, but I see their eyes – because everyone now looks me in the eye, which they rejected at first. They looked away because they learned that it was dangerous to look at women, especially women without the niqab. Several of them hissed at me and whispered: God forgive me, Istaghfarallah, when they saw me, says the director of the center.
She adds:
– But rehabilitation is a slow process. The boys are still dangerous, that’s why they are detained. But don’t forget that even those who have committed heinous crimes are also victims. They were children and are still minors.
