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In Mosul Iraq, three years after the end of the
war against the Islamic state and the

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liberation of the town.

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These children are everywhere, sons and
daughters of jihadists or former child soldiers.

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These are the people.
The terrorist organization has left in its wake

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the most vulnerable.

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Hey, what is to become of this generation who
have grown up under the Islamic

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State?
How will they be able to reconstruct their

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lives in this war scarred country.

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Iraqi society even give them a chance

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from 2014 to 2017, Isis held a territory as
large as the United Kingdom straddling Iraq

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and Syria and administered the lives of several
million people.

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The second largest city in Iraq was one of the
two capitals of the terrorist group.

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This is where the restoration of the Caliphate
was declared today.

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Tens of thousands of their children survive in
the impoverished suburbs of the cities.

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The security forces refuse to give them new
identity documents and without those legally,

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they do not exist, they have no access to
medical care or food aid.

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And most importantly to schooling.

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Yasser was born at the same time as the
Caliphate under the Islamic State.

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His father was a high ranking official in the
Mosul administration.

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For three years now, Yasser has been growing up
in a vacuum together with 10 or so brothers and

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cousins, the women band together for fear of
reprisals and like his mother try to

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clear their names with the help of lawyers.

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Reconstruction in Mosul has come to a full

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stop.
The old town was ravaged by the freedom

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fighting in 2017, 9 months of urban warfare and
unspeakable violence coupled with the jihadist

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violence still alive in everyone\'s mind.

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No one is ready to forgive.

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Hanna is the mukhtar of the ras Al Jada
district.

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His role is to provide a link between the state
and the population.

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He is the one who decides which families have
the right to resettle

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since the retaking of the city security forces
have been relentlessly hunting down these

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little helpers of the jihad.

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The cubs of the Caliphate

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guards suicide attack volunteers.
Members of the intelligence services of which

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ISIS made wide use.

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Indoctrination started with theoretical
training for which the youngest children are

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now paying a high price.

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Tariq was arrested more than a year after the
liberation of the city.

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He was immediately taken to prison where he
remained for 19 months.

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The prison where Tariq was held is located in
the north of Mosul,

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somewhere in the city of El.

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We were allowed to enter without cameras in
what is supposed to be a re education center

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for young child soldiers.

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Then exceptionally, we were able to capture
these exclusive images from surveillance

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cameras.
We can see six cells in each one.

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There are close to 200 adolescents.

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A quarter of them have not even been sentenced.

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They have all grown up between these walls.
Some of them from the age of 12,

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they are allowed out into the courtyard for a
few hours a week.

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No bed, no chair and no education.

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A blatant breach of human and child rights and
of Iraqi law which forbids the imprisonment of

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Minors unless accompanied by rehabilitation
measures

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According to judge raid, these files revealed
that the Islamic State recruited up to 4000

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minors.

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A few weeks after our visit, we learned that a
new rehabilitation center for

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minors was finally going to see the light of
day.

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Conversely, all the young people who have
reached adulthood in tel have been transferred

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to an adult prison where the conditions of
detention are equally horrific.

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It\'s difficult not to imagine the worst for
these young men crushed by their imprisonment

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All the more because they have already
experienced the failings of the Iraqi justice

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system.
Revenge botched inquiries, filing errors,

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torture some young people who have nonetheless
served their sentence cannot even return home.

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Several 100 adolescents were captured by
Kurdish Iraqi forces.

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When Isis fell convicted, they have since been
freed but they fear fresh arrest if they return

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to the Mosul region.
So they languish in this camp between the two

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territories here in Michigan.

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One in a

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recruitment and training of the cubs of the
Caliphate was centrally controlled from Raqqa,

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the official capital of the Islamic state today
in ruins

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to create the new man who the organization
dreamed of Isis relied on young people

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everywhere.

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The Islamic state covered its territory with
military training camps for child soldiers

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several kilometers from the town.
The memory of them still haunts the inhabitants.

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Al Ahmad joined the Syrian Democratic forces.

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The Islamic state killed his uncle, his brother
and two of his cousins.

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It was in March 2019 that the Islamic state
lost its last territory in Syria

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after the defeat, children of the jihadists
were taken to this camp at al.

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62,000 people are still living there.

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Among them, 21,000 Iraqi children,

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many mothers have kept the ISIS ideology intact.

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Inside the camp,
Save the Children,

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a child protection
NGO, teaches math, science,

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Arabic and English.

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Mohammed is 13 years old.

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His family have followed the retreat of the
organization across Iraq from Ramadi to Mosul

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then into Syria where his brothers fought until
the final battle of Bau two years ago.

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A de-radicalization program has been
introduced at Al Ho and Iraq.

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Like so many other countries refuses to
repatriate these children.

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Some child soldiers among the most fanatic like
Mahar have nonetheless been able to return to

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Iraq to their family.

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A treatment offered to the children of his
community which is first and foremost,

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a victim of Isis.

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Mahar is Yazidi, one of the oldest religions of
Mesopotamia.

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In the summer of 2014, the Islamic State
attacked their lands in Sinjar.

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Iraq.
The men were massacred, the women and little

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girls subjected to sexual slavery.

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The boys like Mahar who at the time was only 10
years old were recruited into the ranks of the

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terrorist organization.

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Jara was too much

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was abducted with his mother and four of his
brothers and sisters.

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Only his father escaped the jihadists by some
miracle from this camp for displaced people in

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Iraq where he found refuge.

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He sought the help of people smugglers to find
them.

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Until 2017.

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Mahar was then 13 years old,

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drugged Mahar was captured and delivered by the
people smugglers to Syrian Kurdish forces who

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accompanied him to Iraq to his own family.

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Since his return three years ago,
Mahar has benefited from a

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psychological support program.

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A long and difficult process.

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Although the Yazidi child soldiers have been
able to reintegrate into their community,

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the same cannot be said of the children born of
the rape of Yazidi women captured by the

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Islamic State somewhere in the northeast of
Syria.

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Zara Sina herself.
A Yazidi takes in these women who have escaped

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from Isis and who continue to arrive every
month.

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For the women who have had children
as a result of these rapes,

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a new ordeal awaits them.

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The entire Yazidi community refuses to accept
these children and it is Zara who has to

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prepare the mothers to abandon them.

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Dozens of women have therefore returned home,
forced to abandon their children in Syria,

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most of them do not recover from being torn
apart like this.

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It\'s in this orphanage managed by the Syrian
Kurdish forces that her daughter Layla now

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lives.
This is where she left her in April 2019 and

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where hope to see her again.

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Got a chair agree is now

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5 and a half years old.

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She does not know that her mother is trying to
reclaim her at this.

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After two years of separation, Leila has
finally been able to return to Iraq and reunite

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with her mother once more, they are now living
in hiding,

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waiting for an opportunity to leave the country.

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The Yazidi community continues to ban the
children born of fathers who were Isis fighters

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Since his return three years ago, Mahar has
reconnected with his family and is trying to

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find his identity again,

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So little is done in Iraq for the children,
sacrificed by history for these former child

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soldiers.
For those who are growing up without any legal

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existence.