He trained and recruited child soldiers from among the refugees; Another crime by QSD in northern Syria/exclusive report

According to the Arabic site Tasnim News, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in their latest criminal act They kidnap and recruit “child soldiers” from Syrian Kurdish refugees in the northeastern region of Syria. The group known as “Rebellious Youths”, affiliated with QSD, kidnaps children and transports them to military camps, using them as child soldiers.

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The mother of a victim of a group of rebellious youth: They were initially a They held a closed meeting to recruit my son and after 26 months we didn’t hear from him. Our appeal to regional and international organizations was useless. tasnimnews.com/Tasnim/Uploaded/Image/1402/11/07/14021107163629743292682410.png”/>

According to the statistics, in 2022 alone, at least 49 children will be recruited by rebellious youth groups in the context of cultural events such as festivals

Reza al-Basha, a Syrian field reporter: This group uses three methods of holding cultural events, kidnapping and offering significant financial promises to attract children into its military structure.

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Reza El Basha, a field reporter, referring to following up the situation of these children through their families He says: Their families have confirmed that their children were attracted in different ways. Perhaps the most dangerous way to attract children is that parents who trust them and send their children to cultural centers to participate in courses such as music, poetry, design, art and the like. color:black”> But children are gradually attracted through closed meetings and secret gatherings. of the leaders of Qasd in these cultural centers. In the second stage, some leaders of the rebel youth organization recruit children. They pretend that these children are learning military training and working with weapons inside the camps. But in fact, we are faced with the abuse of cultural centers and cultural and artistic activities in order to brainwash children with the aim of transferring children from childhood to carrying weapons and fighting.

Pasha added: The second method is direct kidnapping. This direct kidnapping was carried out by one of the activists and employees of the United Nations. It has been confirmed in the region that it happens most of the time in villages and parts located on the outskirts of the city. They come with frosted cars and smoked glass so you can’t see what’s inside the car. Masked people watch one of the houses until the child comes out, then they kidnap him, put him in a car and take him somewhere far away or to the camps.

The third method is, of course, to abuse the needs of the people in the shadow of the bad economic situation, as well as the needs of children who, due to the bad economic reality, face the temptation of salaries of 400-500 thousand Syrian pounds. become This is an opportunity for a child who feels that he has begun to build his personality somewhere, which is considered the third method of attracting children. Of course, during the first 3 months of recruiting children, parents are not allowed to get any information about the status of their children.

After 3 months and after this Children are sent to certain camps, their parents are contacted and given information that your child is in such and such a place and is conducting such and such a military operation, or is being trained in one of the camps. Of course, at this time, the families may not be allowed to visit their children until the next stage, which is six months to a year after the course.

Those who are inside Syria are usually recruited into groups called comfort forces and internal security forces. Those who are transferred to Qandil camps go through long ideological courses to become military tools for violent and brutal battles and maybe even suicide operations.

Kidnapping of children and the activities of the rebel youth group are not limited only to the areas under the control of the SDF forces in the Syrian island. Information indicates that the activity of this group extends to southern Anatolia, Iraqi Kurdistan, and western Iran, so that the children of these areas are the reserve forces of the organization on the war fronts.

The situation of refugees in Afrin has created favorable conditions for the recruitment of dozens of children in the rebel youth group affiliated with Qasd. Here in the northern outskirts of Aleppo, the refugee camps and the poor economic conditions of the people have created a good opportunity to attract children.

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