ISIL boy decapitates Syrian officer in new video
The ISIL Takfiri terrorist group has released a new propaganda video purportedly showing a young recruited boy decapitating a Syrian army officer.
The footage, received by the so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights on Friday, shows a young boy, whose age could not be confirmed, standing beside a kneeling Syrian officer with a knife in his hand.
In the video, the officer admits that he was held captive by the group when he was in the west of al-Heer Palace, near the ancient city of Palmyra, in the central Homs province. Then, an adult terrorist, standing by the boy, addresses the camera and threatens the audience.
“Our goal is not only Palmyra nor Homs or Damascus but our goal is to conquer al-Quds (Jerusalem) and Rome, God willing.”
Then, the boy, wearing camouflage and a black headdress with an uncovered face, under the guidance of the adult terrorist, forces the captive to lie on his front so that he can pull back the officer’s head and behead him with the small knife.
After decapitating the officer’s head, the minor puts the victim’s head on his body to imitate the pose done by ISIL members in their gruesome beheading ritual.
The adult calls the boy one of the “cubs of the Caliphate”, who are believed to be around several hundreds. They have undergone military trainings, and were given hard-line indoctrination following their recruitment.
The gruesome incident confirms a 2014 report by the United Nations Human Rights Council that the terror group “has established training camps to recruit children into armed roles under the guise of education.”
“At the camps, the children recruited received weapons training and religious education… The existence of such camps seems to indicate that ISIL systematically provides weapons training for children,” the report further read.
The ISIL terrorist group has gained notoriety for its barbarity, heinous atrocities, and sacrilegious acts. Its militants have been accused of committing gross human rights violations and war crimes in areas they control in Syria, Iraq, and Libya.
The conflict in Syria, which started in March 2011, has reportedly claimed more than 230,000 lives.
The violence has also forced over 3.8 million Syrians to take refuge in neighboring countries, while more than 7.2 million others have been displaced within Syria, according to the United Nations.
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