Isis is teaching children how to make bombs while “brainwashing” them with its jihadist ideology, according to parents fleeing its territories in Iraq. “They replaced the schools with schools that taught boys how to fight, to make IEDs for example, how to make suicide attacks,” one mother said.
HRW met women and children who had escaped the terrorist group’s rule, including girls used as sex slaves who were repeatedly raped by its militants. Older women described their fears for their children, who were either unable to go to closed schools or found themselves forced to adhere to Isis’ extremist curriculum.