Young Soldiers Trained to Kill for Allah: SAA Finds ISIS Child Terrorist Training Camp in Damascus
Today in the suburbs of Damascus several teams of combat engineers conducted a mine clearing operation. In the Yarmouk District, recently liberated from terrorists, they found more than 40 explosive devices and a special means of identification that allows terrorists to identify each other.
Our wartime correspondent, Alexander Bilibov, with the details.
Through the narrow streets of Yarmouk filled with the rubble of buildings we work our way into the quarter. Behind large iron gates is a schoolyard. A long time ago, the sound of children's laughter could be heard here Then, ISIL terrorists came.
Once a regular school it was turned by terrorists of the so-called ISIL into a specialized training camp for the propagation of the ideas of radical Islam among the younger generation had been one of the main goals of the terrorists of the pseudo caliphate. Drawings that decorated halls and classes have been altered by the terrorists in their own way. The faces of people depicted here were painted over, The blag flags of ISIL were added to the landscapes. Terrorists trained former students to become their successors. The schoolyard's walls are covered with bullet holes. It used to be a shooting range where children were trained to use all kinds of weapons. At 13 years old, they became insurgents and could go to war. Young suicide bombers were also trained here.
Muhammad, Syrian Army: "Suicide bombers were chosen by the parents themselves. They gave them explosive belts and sent them to their deaths".
At the school, Syrian soldiers found something interesting: to the eyes, it is merely an ordinary bottle of perfume.
Muhammad, Syrian Army: "In order to identify each other in a crowd, they were given such capsules with perfume of a special scent, so they could recognize each other".
Tricks used by terrorists have been known by the Syrian military and special forces for a long time due to people such as Bashir.
Bashir, intelligence officer: "I served in the Syrian army, 5 years ago I was sent here to report on what Jabhat al-Nusra terrorists had been doing here".
Meanwhile, civilians continue to return to the liberated Yarmouk District. But very few are able to find their houses undamaged. What's next for the former last terrorist stronghold in the south of Damascus is to be determined by the Syrian government.
Alexander Bilibov, Sergey Truskow and Mikhail Emelin, Vesti, Yarmouk District Damascus, Syria.