By Jason Farrell, Sky Correspondent
Children in Syria are being taken from their families to be trained as Islamic State fighters and used as informants, according to a civilian who fled the city of Raqqa.
Former student Abu Abrahim Raqqawi gave Sky News a chilling account of life inside the IS-controlled city where he claimed children are being indoctrinated to become jihadists.
Abu, whose name has been changed, is able to talk because he was smuggled out of Raqqa two weeks ago but remains in regular contact with more than a dozen other underground activists in the city.
Abu Abrahim says there is no education for children in Raqqa "They (IS) say to the young people, those between 16 and 18, 'Okay, we will give you money if you say who are talking about us or are saying something bad about us'.
"There is a camp for under-16 children. They took a lot of children without their families knowing, and it's very bad. It's just a special camp for young people. They make them like a bomb; a time bomb."
The US launched airstrikes against IS targets in Syria on Tuesday and Abu Abrahim said IS members in the city were killed after rockets struck their communications hub and a hospital used exclusively by the militants.
The US has launched airstrikes against IS targets in Syria But there are mixed feelings about the Western military intervention.
Abu Abrahim said: "There is anger because the city is being destroyed but some accept they have to do a deal with the devil to get rid of IS.
"But others feel if the US cared about the people here, Obama would have acted when President Assad crossed the red line."
Here he is referring to the Syrian leader's alleged use of chemical weapons last year.
Several Syrian cities and IS strongholds were targetted in the attack "There are a lot of executions, secret executions and public executions, especially after the Friday sermons - crucifying, beheading and things like that," he said.
He provided images to back this up; some showed children watching the gruesome events.
"There are no hospitals inside the city of Raqqa now. When there is an airstrike (previously from President Assad's forces) wounded people are taken to small hospitals in houses without any equipment," he said.
"They're dying in the street. ISIS have their own hospitals that do not allow citizens to go in."
The group have made rapid advances across swathes of Iraq and Syria Abu Abrahim says there is no education in the city and some families are struggling to find food.
He claims IS fighters have also seized people's homes to house foreign fighters, but the biggest problem is access to medicine and hospital treatment.
His friends have been filming and taking photographs - posting images on a Facebook page called "Raqqa Is Being Silently Slaughtered".
One of the group was killed by IS when his activities were discovered. Despite being tortured, he didn't release the names of the others.
IS has ousted the Free Syrian Army from Raqqa - the original resistance movement to the Syrian leader Bashar al Assad is much diminished by the terrorist group across Syria.
Abu Abrahim said: "I think if the West wants to do something to kick ISIS out from Syria, they must bomb the Assad regime. If the Assad regime gets bombed and down, then easily the ISIS regime will get out of Syria because the FSA and all the fighters will just fight ISIS and not both ISIS and Assad."
IS fighters proclaim Raqqa is a paradise, but Abu says normal civilians are struggling for survival - that life in a terrorist-controlled city is one of fear, and lives are being risked to tell the real story of the city.
Anda sedang membaca artikel tentang
Families Living In Fear In IS-Controlled Raqqa
Dengan url
http://malurasanya.blogspot.com/2014/09/families-living-in-fear-in-is.html
Anda boleh menyebar luaskannya atau mengcopy paste-nya
Families Living In Fear In IS-Controlled Raqqa
namun jangan lupa untuk meletakkan link
Families Living In Fear In IS-Controlled Raqqa
sebagai sumbernya
0 komentar:
Posting Komentar