Child recruitment
By Sarah taleb Alsouhail
The phenomenon of recruitment of child soldiers in the Middle East, a
humanitarian catastrophe by all standards, while the international
community and its organizations and bodies and its laws stand unable
to face them, if children and peoples of the Middle East region are
paying the price for this recruitment currently in the murder of
innocence, childhood and turn them into criminals kill everything and
everybody, the peoples of the world will pay greater if this
phenomenon did not occur, especially since terrorism is spreading in
the world as the speed of skyrocketing.
Our region ripple many of the organizations that recruit children as
is the case in Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Afghanistan and Sudan, such as
Daesh, and al-Qaeda and Boko Haram and others.
The world is watching to organize Daesh, and he is recruiting children
to carry out acts of violence, murder and terrorism, chaos and
fragmentation of states, and spawn new generations of terrorists,
those children who were raised on the scenes of violence and bombings,
murders, they will rise and consider that the murder is a part of
everyday life.
Painful Facts
According to international reports, it is also in Yemen are exploiting
children, UNICEF, announced that the proportion of children in the
ranks of veterans of the Houthis are a third of all fighters in Yemen,
as the corresponding bodies are supported with army and foreign
weapons, and here it exploitation of children in fighting become less.
While the organization of Daesh fighters forcing the kidnapped Yazidis
children to become soldiers and suicide bombers after taking them for
training in terrorist camps, and to prepare them for war.
In Nigeria, where the conflict intensifies, the group "Boko Haram"
and committees of popular security which is anti for them, are
recruiting children and force them to carry out assistance and
spyware, In Somalia, the Young Mujahideen Movement forcing Somali
children to fight in their ranks, after they have been abducted from
their families, homes, and schools.
Means recruiting
The diversity of methods of terrorist organizations in the recruitment
of child soldiers, Daesh depends on the policy of starvation and
entice parents to send their children for money, as is the case with
the people of Raqqa, Syria, who is working for the Daesh receive a
salary of fighter ranges between 400. $ 1,000 a month, also recruiting
methods like, corruption of children through camps, preaching and
distributing gifts to them and allow them to use their weapons and
play them, the children were kidnapped and are being recruited without
the knowledge of parents, as are recruited large numbers of children
who are orphans or street children and homeless or without a
maintainer, they are lured by providing housing and shelter for them
and convince them that they are workers and producers and are paid
salaries for their work.
On the hand, children are recruited, who stayed away from their homes
for long hours in the labor market, these children have lost the
atmosphere and the warmth of the family, they became psychological gap
that allow any intruder to broke into their suffering and lack of
passion and care, and that these children are accustomed to toil and
fatigue, responsibility and hardships, they recruited large numbers of
children via the Internet, websites and social networking sites, where
the child resides for entertainment, exploration and communicate with
others.
Hence the risk of not watching children and monitor their accounts
lies in these sites, whether those responsible for the fight against
the recruitment of children by parents or themselves, It turned out
that not all recruits from limited or low or no income, there are
children from rich families but suffer from void in the time and the
space in the emotion and thought, and they got easily brainwashed.
Anything empty is easy to fill it according to the operator, Hence I
warned too much, that parents should fill the lives of their children
in studying and reading, activities and discuss with them the ideas
and put forward important issues awareness in front of them, and their
education and enter the moral teachings to their hearts before the
recruiters.
The TV channels and what it shows on their screens from a boot to the
recruitment of children programs and ideas are insinuate sometimes
openly and directly, other times lightly and gradually simplified
method based on repetition of information diluted as putting poison in
the honey.
Who does not now recognize that education and religious discourse
curricula in some houses of worship directed, and also media channels,
whether visual or audio or online, all they contributed and contribute
to the creation of terrorism, and so far no step or initiative to
change it has done.
Since I'm more than 7 years I demand to change the curriculum, and
suggested that I participate in the preparation for this, but nobody
listened.
After recruitment
The organization of their education and training to fight and
graduation being ready to fight groups, not to exceed 16 years of age
in the battle groups, they are often recruited as elements of suicide
or spies, because of their mobility and stealth and find out ways on
Earth.
The economic aspect plays a role in the children's category to take
advantage of the terrorist organizations, as the young pay far less
than older, the discipline and enthusiasm can be exploited to convince
them through influence on the minds of suicide bombers.
Major disaster that children with special needs are not immune from
terrorist recruitment, where they are used without their wills in car
bombings in Iraq, as Daesh organization commented when they used them
in suicide bombings, booby-trapping and Jerry without their knowledge
or realized what happened to them.
Brainwashing
One of the most methods and the young recruit to the terrorist
organizations is the brains washing through educational schools,
International reports have detected the presence of more than 12
thousand schools belonging to the organization of al Qaeda and Daesh
in Syria, which means that these young people have been exposed to the
case of a deleting of the identity of the ideas of violence and
fighting, making them ticking time bombs deliver the face of their
communities and the face of the global community, in what they imbued
from the thought of atonement and blasting.
Electronic recruitment
The organization of Daesh hired modern technology in the recruitment
of children by publishing manuals on the Internet networks explain to
mothers how to raise their children on Aldaasha thought, and to urge
them to read the stories about jihad when they went to sleep, and
encourage them to practice sports, such as archery, in order to
improve their ability to aim.
Encourage children to play the game with pistols, conversion training
to the fun and joy for kids, terrorist organizations also resorted to
exploit the technique and technology in recruiting young children and
juveniles through electronic games, and make friends mock them and
exploit their accounts and to know their PIN numbers, then being
intimidated and threatened for later.
And it bears the parents and the community the responsibility of the
occurrence of this crime, because they neglected to monitor their
children while playing such dangerous games, the society also bears
the responsibility for its inability to set controls for these games
codify the use and control.
These electronic games is prone to penetrate terrorist groups and then
offer the children who use them for threats Aldoaash and al-Qaeda to
kill their parents or kidnapped if they do not obey their desires and
their guidance.
Raise awareness
This issue remains serious societal issue that requires electronic
school cooperation, and I think it is time to take stock in the Arab
world of specialized scientific studies that warn of these games,
Including a study of the Organization for Justice and Development, one
of the study organizations in the Middle East, which was the first to
warn of the production of Playstation Games, and which are sold in
various markets during the summer vacation because of the seriousness
and close association with psychology and its impact on the
subconscious mind and the subconscious, through the introduction of
ideas and formulation in the form of an exciting story reaches of the
human mind, which is not aware of messages affect the subconscious
mind for children and young people.
The organization has demonstrated in it's study of a large number of
games used to control the mind and is aware of associated
intelligence, It is a comprehensive control personality and emancipate
the mind of the laws and morality and immorality allow the community
through instill these concepts minds of children.
The international intelligence used the strategy of mind control to
carry out terrorist operations in the countries where the major powers
failed to penetrate its national security, especially Algeria,
Morocco, Tunisia, Sudan, where they used symbols and codes that Games
a major terrorist operations, In addition to its role in controlling
the mind and the recruitment of thousands of young people to fight the
ranks of militant groups after the operations of mind control
operations, and therefore used Daesh used it to recruit the children
in the camps they are trained in the killings and bombings.
The position of the law of God
Divine religions, including the Islamic religion forbids the use of
children in war and conflict as little atonement Observatory of the
Dar al-Fatwa in a report, stressing that Islamic law emphasized the
protection of children in wars and armed conflicts and prevent them
from joining the army and fight in wars, because the child is poor
infrastructure and not able to withstand its horrors, as discouraged
about the killing of children in wars and ruled that exposure to them,
The Prophet forbade – Peace Be Upon Him - expressly forbid the killing
of women and boys in wars, where he said: " "What's wrong with people
who reached their murder that killed the race ?, do not kill the race,
do not kill the race".
The most important of these principles endorsed by Islam and warned
Observatory Azhari of the recruitment of children, because it's going
to tame the coming generation carries the ideology and terrorist
organizations.
As well as the Christian religion and of our Lord Jesus Christ, who
urged to protect children and give them the attention and care and
love and teach them tolerance and compassion and love.
The recruitment of children and international law
The recruitment of children under 15 years of fighting is prohibited
under international humanitarian law and in accordance with the
treaties and norms, as being defined as a war crime by the
International Criminal Court.
Human rights law also declares the age of 18 years as the legal
minimum age for recruitment and use of children in hostilities, the
parties of the conflict that recruit and use children by the
Secretary-General were added on the list of shame, that issued
annually.
While UNICEF remains concerned with the rights of children are unable
to stop this crime which expands in the Middle East, UNICEF is not
able to offer any assistance to these children who are under the
control of terrorist organizations only after their liberation from
the grip, and then UNICEF can work to support these children once the
demobilization of armed groups, and take them back to their families,
and health care, and the provision of necessities, psychological
support, and provide education and social rehabilitation.
Cooperation to wash the shame
The remaining operations of recruiting children to the terrorist
organizations in the Middle East, shame on the forehead of the
international community requires cooperation with human rights
organizations and civil society organizations to put pressure on the
governments of this region and to stop the arrival of any financing of
terrorist groups.
And the faithful of the wisdoms of this region to make every effort to
raise awareness of the seriousness of the recruitment of children in
conflict, to make learning and religious, social and media
institutions roles parallel to work on strengthening family links and
spread awareness among parents, to protect their children from having
to work in appalling conditions and fortify their children from wash
brains, which runs through the social networks and across the
electronic games and other methods.
In the end, all States, their government institutions have to provide
a healthy environment for children of food, clothing, housing, health,
compulsory schools and change the education curriculum and control
the terrorists and their methods to protect children from their evil,
and last but not least, the proper education of religion, so they have
a full awareness of the difference between right and wrong.
The most important of all of this is that the start from the house and
the family, a mother who does not give her children a lot of love and
passion will lose this baby who would become a cruel violent, how the
child is going to learn love, if he doesn't feel it in childhood.
Sarah Alsouhail
