Four Kurdish boys, ages 14-16 escaped from ISIS to Turkey. They told their chilling story to Human Rights Watch. The children were abducted by the Sunni Muslim militants on May 29 as they traveled home to the border town on Kobani after taking school exams in the city of Aleppo. The ISIS terrorists released 100+ girls within a couple of hours but kept around 150 boys. The escaped young men tell of a horrific ordeal.
The boys were divided into eight groups, given three blankets & were allowed to bathe once every two weeks. They say the kidnappers beat the children with cables who tried to escape, did poorly in the mandatory religious lessons, couldn’t recite the Quran, etc. The boys were also forced to watch videos of ISIS beheadings.
They sometimes found excuses to beat us for no reason … They made us learn verses of the Koran and beat those who didn’t manage to learn them. Those who didn’t conform to the program were beaten. They beat us with a green hose or a thick cable with wire running through it. They also beat the soles of our feet,” one of the boys told the rights group.
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