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Somalia: Jihadis forcing civilians to hand over young children for training

Jan 16, 2018 9:00 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

Somalia’s Al-Qaeda linked Shabaab insurgents are increasingly threatening civilians to force them to hand over young children for “indoctrination and military training

That’s right, young children are being yanked away from their homes, parents, schools, loved ones and familiar surroundings to be trained for bloody jihad war. This includes being kept in chains as they are indoctrinated on launching future attacks on the West and on how to become jihad/martyrdom suicide bombers.

Meanwhile, most of the world’s leaders pretend to care about human rights as they remain silent in the face of the worst global atrocities committed by jihadists.

“Somalia’s Shabaab forcing civilians to hand over children: HRW”, The Citizen (thanks to The Religion of Peace), January 15, 2018:

Somalia’s Al-Qaeda linked Shabaab insurgents are increasingly threatening civilians to force them to hand over young children for “indoctrination and military training”, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Monday.

The rights watchdog said an aggressive campaign to recruit children had begun in mid-2017, with the jihadists taking reprisals against communities who refuse to cooperate.

Hundreds of children have fled their homes to avoid this fate, often alone, it said in a statement.

“Al-Shabaab’s ruthless recruitment campaign is taking rural children from their parents so they can serve this militant armed group,” said Laetitia Bader, senior Africa researcher at Human Rights Watch.

The practice was revealed to be taking place in three districts largely under Shabaab control, in the southern Bay region.

According to HRW, Al-Shabaab has opened large Islamic religious schools since 2015 in areas under their control, bringing in younger children and pressuring teachers to teach the Shabaab curriculum in schools and avoid “foreign teachings”.

Village elders near Baidoa in southwestern Somalia told HRW that in September, Shabaab militants ordered them to hand over dozens of children between the ages of nine and 15.

“They said we needed to support their fight. They spoke to us in a very threatening manner. They also said they wanted the keys to our boreholes. They kept us for three days. We said we needed to consult with our community. They gave us 10 days,” one resident told HRW.

The community refused to hand over the children, and has since received threatening calls including death threats.

That same month residents of Burkhaba district said Shabaab fighters had forcible taken at least 50 boys and girls from two schools to a village called Bulo Fulay, reported to host a “number of religious schools and a major training facility”.

A large group of Shabaab militants returned two weeks later to another local school and threatened the teacher who refused to hand over the children, said HRW.

“They wanted 25 children ages eight to 15,” the teacher told HRW

“They didn’t say why, but we know that it’s because they want to indoctrinate them and then recruit them.”

In Berdale district — also in the Bay region — Shabaab has abducted elders who refuse to hand over children in at least four villages, said the statement.

According to HRW, hundreds of often unaccompanied children have fled their homes since the recruitment campaign began.

The watchdog said that while government had taken some steps to protect schools and students, it should work to identify recruitment drives, assist displaced children and ensure children “are not sent into harm’s way.”

The Shabaab has been fighting to overthrow successive internationally backed governments in Mogadishu since 2007….

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Filed Under: Al-Qaeda, Al-Shabaab, Somalia Tagged With: Burkhaba, child soldiers, Human Rights Watch


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  1. john spielman says

    Jan 16, 2018 at 10:38 am

    this is why somalia is a typical islamic S*** hole

    • J D S says

      Jan 20, 2018 at 10:15 pm

      More proof that Islam is the religion..Religion?? (so called) of FESR and FORCE.
      If Islam was on trial in a court of law…Jihad Watch, alone, could provide enough evidence to prove and demand the death penalty. But of course the judge, jury and prosecutor would be on the side of the defendant.

      • J D S says

        Jan 20, 2018 at 10:16 pm

        OOPS….FEAR AND FORCE

        • gravenimage says

          Jan 20, 2018 at 10:33 pm

          I knew what you meant, J D S. Very much agree.

  2. Frank Anderson says

    Jan 16, 2018 at 12:01 pm

    So what is new? The Ottoman Turks kidnapped, molested, and forced conversion of Christian boys to be januseries (sp?) at the time of Vlad the Impaler. “Does a leopard ever change spots or a zebra its stripes?”

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 16, 2018 at 4:41 pm

      Exactly–remember the Janissaries.

      Islam has always practiced this terrible child abuse.

      • Frank Anderson says

        Jan 16, 2018 at 5:00 pm

        I think of the consequences:
        1. Parent loses child.
        2. Child loses parent.
        3. Child suffers massive abuse turning him into a zombie warrior only for the purpose of killing or being killed, further depressing parents.
        4. Muslims do not have to fight because kidnapped Christians do it for them, in the front row.
        5. Christians must either surrender or kill their own children to resist islam.
        6. Muslims walk away laughing at the fools who let this happen.

        I know I have missed something. What else?

        • TomD says

          Jan 17, 2018 at 1:28 am

          You missed the fact that the article never said these Somali children are Christian. Any who are Christian are certainly practicing in secret, because they and their parents would be dead if caught. No, these children are (mostly) Muslim, probably from the ‘wrong’ tribe.

          Just goes to so that a completely Islamic world will never know peace.

        • Frank Anderson says

          Jan 17, 2018 at 3:52 am

          Well taken; Thank you.

        • gravenimage says

          Jan 17, 2018 at 10:14 pm

          Tom, no one said these Somali children are Christian–this was just pointing to the long history of Jihadists demanding a tribute in children they can use as fighters.

        • TomD says

          Jan 18, 2018 at 12:15 am

          gravenimage, hope you are well.

          I think both Frank and I agree that there was an inadvertent shift of emphasis. I don’t think any of us will agree on exact details.

          Also, it’s not just tribute that is the motive. Look at the West Bank imams who have turned over their children with Down’s Syndrome to the thugs who then put them in explosive vests. Sometimes it’s just to get rid of the kid they don’t want.

        • gravenimage says

          Jan 20, 2018 at 10:34 pm

          Agreed, Tom.

      • StellaSaidSo says

        Jan 17, 2018 at 1:42 am

        Indeed, GI. There is a very long tradition behind this practice.

        We have seen a subtle version of it in UK recently, where so-called ‘Child Protection Services’ have placed non-Muslim children with Muslim foster families.

        • gravenimage says

          Jan 17, 2018 at 10:16 pm

          Grimly true, Stella:

          http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/08/28/white-christian-girl-put-foster-care-non-english-speaking-muslim/

  3. Bernadette de Wit says

    Jan 16, 2018 at 12:09 pm

    Indeed, Frank. It is called devşirme in Turkish, (دوشيرمه), in Greek παιδομάζωμα (paedomazοma), in Rumanian tribut de sânge, in Servo-Croatian danak u krvi, in Bulgarian кръвен данък (kraven danak), mening: lifting or collecting children or blood tax / tribute in blood. (sp: Janissaries)

    • Frank Anderson says

      Jan 16, 2018 at 12:52 pm

      “Two heads are better. . . .!” Thank you for the correction and information. A vile practice from vile and evil people.

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 16, 2018 at 4:42 pm

      Yes, Bernadette. There is a poster here whose great uncle escaped from this horror as an adult in the last days of the Ottoman Empire. Many were never able to escape.

  4. DP111 says

    Jan 16, 2018 at 2:15 pm

    Somalia is in a league of its own. Its a shithole country even among shithole countries. And the reason – Somalis.

    • Lu says

      Jan 16, 2018 at 2:18 pm

      Yup. Shithole country par excellence, and now we have – 80,000+? – Somalis in the US: what an immense enrichment and diversity.

      • infidel says

        Jan 16, 2018 at 11:21 pm

        And most of them are in VIKING country… MN… and the once peaceful idyllic Tri state area… What a shame!!!

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 16, 2018 at 4:46 pm

      Somalia is virtually 100% Muslim. The other countries that are 100% Islamic are also utter violent sh*tholes–Afghanistan and Yemen.

  5. Kay says

    Jan 16, 2018 at 4:46 pm

    This is what the Pope and other bishops should be denouncing and leading the faithful to pray about.

  6. Garfield says

    Jan 16, 2018 at 7:47 pm

    And yet here in America, we have snowflakes whining about gender normative bathrooms or whatever their phrase is today. Women rights? Not for Yazidis. Just pampered college professors and their brainwashed followers. Remember Michelle Obama with her sign about Bring our girls back? Phony hypocrites. And THEN they import these maniacs to the US. Wtf.
    Muslims kidnap and torture people all over the world all the time yet these multi-culti freakshows won’t stop telling us they’re SPECIAL and NICE with their FGM, taquiyya, “honor” killings, jihad, antisemitism…..crazy.

    • infidel says

      Jan 17, 2018 at 12:30 am

      Gender neutral bathrooms?? This is a situation rife for sexual misconduct.. if U are going to allow men and women use the same restrooms…And then U complain.. typical ultra feminist garbage~~~

  7. LeftisruiningCanada says

    Jan 16, 2018 at 10:57 pm

    Hmm young kids, mostly boys, aged 8 – 15 wanted for ‘training’ by muslims, where have i heard that kind of thing before?

    Oh yes, that’s right. Pakistan and Afghanistan, the country every NAMBLA member wishes the USA would emulate in looking the other way regarding their perverted desires.

    • StellaSaidSo says

      Jan 17, 2018 at 2:26 am

      Yep, LIRC. It is not only their shared taste for totalitarian regimes which unites Islam and the Left, but also their interest in paedophilia. The Left’s expansion of so-called LGBT ‘rights’, and its consistent failure to condemn the Muslim rape gangs which specifically target children, has opened the door to the ”normalisation” of paedophilia. At the same time we are also seeing a push from some Islamic communities in the West to formally recognise child marriage. Authorities already give tacit approval to the practice, because it is impossible to police, and to attempt to do so would be seen as ‘Islamophobic’. If Turkey legislates to make it legal for 9 year-old girls to marry – as the hardliners like Erdogan propose – and Turkey becomes a member of the EU, child sexual abuse will flourish in the West to the point where we will have little hope of eradicating it.

  8. infidel says

    Jan 16, 2018 at 11:30 pm

    Eliza Dushku, suddenly wakes up one day and accuses the stunt coordinator of the 1994 movie TRUE LIES of sexual harassment…. VOW!!! While I do not support what has happened to her (IF IT WERE TO BE TRUE).. I have my doubts… She herself has admitted in the past that she had a drug and alcohol prob since her teens… So how credible are her allegations???? THIS IS ONE MANIFESTATION OF THE ULTRA FEMINIST CANCER of Hollywood that is IRREVOCABLY ruining the Greater West today…and this the Jehaadis take the max advantage of…

  9. Ray Jarman says

    Jan 17, 2018 at 1:24 am

    I may be a simpleton but I don’t understand why with American aid with intelligence through the use of drones as well as using drones with fire power, the Somali government forces, Kenyan and Ethiopian forces can’t launch a massive drive from the capital north to Al Shabaab’s strongholds to eradicate them once and for all time. Go from village to village and arrest anyone who refuses to cooperate. It seems that military forces and American drones from time to time field a mission but it is like killing one wasp at a time and it is replaced immediately. Remove all government restrictions and make the nation safe.

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 17, 2018 at 10:39 pm

      Ray, for one thing the “Somali government” barely exists beyond a small part of Mogadishu.

      Secondly, they are themselves all Muslim, and in many cases sympathize with most of Al-Shebaab’s goals.

      • Ray Jarman says

        Jan 18, 2018 at 6:03 pm

        Graven, I never said Somalia act alone. I said with the assistance of Kenya and Ethiopia with US military assistance which has been assisting the western backed Somalian government. Yes, it is Islamic and much like the Afghan government, it wants to live in peace. In 2004 I was sent to Mogadishu to assist in the rebuilding of the communication center in the US Embassy and had the opportunity to see up close the situation there. It will never become a model of intolerance and I don’t foresee it becoming as tourist spot but with demise of Al Shabaab, it could become self sustaining and the piracy could once and for all be stopped from there.

        • gravenimage says

          Jan 20, 2018 at 11:39 pm

          Thanks for your reply, Ray,

          You wrote:

          Graven, I never said Somalia act alone. I said with the assistance of Kenya and Ethiopia with US military assistance which has been assisting the western backed Somalian government.
          …………………………….

          Ray, the “official” Somali government is *itself* “Islamist”. Their commitment to opposing Al Shebaab is inconsistent at best, because they are not really ideologically opposed to them. They may act when directly threatened, but that is often about it.

          More:

          Yes, it is Islamic and much like the Afghan government, it wants to live in peace.
          …………………………….

          With all respect, Ray, I don’t think the Afghan government has much interest in living in peace, either. They are also inconsistent in opposing the Taliban, and for exactly the same reasons.

          More:

          In 2004 I was sent to Mogadishu to assist in the rebuilding of the communication center in the US Embassy and had the opportunity to see up close the situation there.
          …………………………….

          That must have been tough. I’m glad you got out OK. Somalia is not safe for any Infidels.

          More:

          It will never become a model of intolerance and I don’t foresee it becoming as tourist spot but with demise of Al Shabaab, it could become self sustaining and the piracy could once and for all be stopped from there.
          …………………………….

          I suppose you mean “model of tolerance”, and I agree with you there.

          Muslim piracy *has* been much reduced, but no thanks to the government in Somalia. A consortium of nations–the US first among them–has been escorting ships through the Indian Ocean and the Gulf of Aden.

          In fact, the Somali government is threatening a revival of piracy if Infidel nations don’t give them more money:

          http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-33822635

        • Ray Jarman says

          Jan 21, 2018 at 7:44 pm

          Gravenimage, Thanks for your input and I shall keep it in mind and I do agree that with a few exceptions, the Muslim countries are doomed to self destruction and prove Hobbes correct about natural man.

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