The brave youngsters – now living in refugee camps in northern Iraq – said they were subjected to barbaric punishments when they disobeyed orders from ISIS militants.
Sick ISIS militants are encouraging children to execute their own parents, say escapees
Cowardly terrorists broke the leg of 11-year-old Nouri after he refused to attend a terrorist training camp for “cubs of the caliphate”.
His younger brother Saman, five, now suffers from night terrors and seizures after brutal beatings at the hands of Daesh (ISIS) fighters.
The scarred youngster is the same age as Isa Dare – the Londoner dubbed ‘Jihadi Junior’ after his appearance in the terror group’s latest propaganda video.
Tragic British tot Isa Dare gained instant notoriety after featuring in a propaganda film
The sickening video, which purports to show the executions of five British spies, features Dare staring into the camera and yelling: "Kill the kuffar [non-believers]”.
Schoolboys lucky enough to have escaped the militants’ clutches say such shocking scenes are commonplace in ISIS-controlled areas.
Nasir, 12, said: "When they were training us they would tell us our parents were unbelievers and that our first job was to go back to kill them.
He is one of a small number of traumatized refugees who have described their abduction and incarceration in suicide bomber training camps run by the death cult.
“We weren't allowed to cry but I would think about my mother, think about her worrying about me and I'd try and cry quietly.”
Children as young as five are brainwashed at sick terrorist training camps
The radical Islamists are also enlisting an increasing number of teenage recruits as suicide bombers.
And opposition fighters say ISIS’ “brainwashed” child soldiers – sent into battle wearing concealed explosive vests – are an alarmingly common sight on the Iraqi front.
Kurdish commander Aziz Abdullah Hadur said those lucky enough to escape “barely look human” – but added that helping those freed is “an unbelievably hard decision”.
Children lucky enough to escape imprisonment by the death cult reportedly suffer from seizures
Hadur, who leads Peshmerga fighters on the fiercely contested Gweyr frontline in northern Iraq, said: “When they make it through our lines they kill our fighters.
“You don’t know what to do because if you don’t kill them they’ll kill you.”
The commander admitted that he and his men sometimes have no option but to open fire on the children, many of whom are now in need of specialist psychological help.
Activist Khalid Nermo Zedo, who founded the Esyan refugee camp many of the youngsters now call home, said: “Some children are startled if they even hear the word ISIS. They have seizures just hearing that word. These are all catastrophes.”
“We need the world to help us. We can't do this alone,” Express reported.
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