In some of the tunnels dug by ISIS on their various frontlines there are child suicide bombers. The senior militants build bombs and explosives and strap them to these children. Most of the process is also photographed and documented by the group.
These pictures were retrieved from ISIS cell phones and other gadgets left behind after recapture of their territories by the Kurdish Peshmerga forces near Bashiqa. In Some other areas the radical group uses the children as human shields.
The children know they will die once blown up, but they still smile for the false promises of rewards and afterlife luxuries ISIS gives to them.
Some children as young as 6 are trained by ISIS to become suicide bombers.
Training so many children is to expand and strengthen its manpower and raise a generation that could continue the Islamic caliphate or establish a new one.
The group sends some children to special training camps where they will be brainwashed into the ISIS ideology and educated in its doctrine.
The result of this education is that easily volunteer for suicide missions. Some escaped children say that they had to sit and watch videos of beheading.
One reason for recruiting children for these missions is that they might not be easily suspected by security forces or ordinary members of society.
Nearly 6 million people have been living under the ISIS rule for the past two years and one third of them are below the age of 15.
These are the children of the Caliphate.
