Jaafari: terrorist groups recruit children in their operations, the UN did not move to expose violations

NEWYORK,(ST)_ Syria’s Permanent Representative to the UN Dr. Bashar al-Jaafari stressed that terrorist groups in Syria recruit children in their terrorist operations after brainwashing, in special camps and that relevant UN organs did not move to expose these abuses against the Syrian child and did not check messages and documents Syrian presented on the subject.

Jaafari said in a speech during a UNSC session on the situation of children in armed conflict yesterday that “in areas controlled by Daash, al-Nusra Front,” Islamic Front “,” Army of Islam “or the so-called Free Army and other terrorist groups, affiliated to al-Qaida criminal battalions were established under various names such as al-Zarqawi cubs in Damascus Ghota, caliphate cubs of Abu Kamal in eastern Syria, both affiliated to Daash and Ibn Taymiyyah cubs in the countryside of Aleppo, affiliated to al-Nusra front. “

Terrorists wash the brains of children, converting them to monsters and killers

 “The fuel and soldiers of these battalions are children who have been subjected to brainwashing that made of them monsters, murderers, rapists and torturers”, Jaafari said, adding that that some of the video clips from these areas show one Sheikh meets with a group of children in a school yard and starts to teach children in a Gulf accent distorted religious sentences linking them with a person or a religion or a particular party to justify kiling and slaughteing.

Syria has taken all actions that prevent the recruitment of children in combat operations

 al-Jaafari in dicated that the Syrian government has taken since the beginning of the crisis, by virtue of its constitutional responsibilities inl protection of their children and citizens a set of procedures, measures and commitments aimed at strengthening the protection of the child, including taking all legal actions that prevent the recruitment of children in combat operations of any kind.

Jaafari said that “the Syrian government issued a legislative decree dated May 6, 2013, specifically for this purpose and has also taken all possible measures to prevent the targeting of hospitals, schools and to eliminate all forms of violence against Syrian children, including sexual violence, murder and mutilation.”

 “The competent authorities in Syria collaborated with the UN team of the Special Representative on monitoring and reporting on the crimes committed against the Syrian child and investigation to uncover the perpetrators,” he stressed, noting that the Syrian government provided the UN office with documented information on hundreds of crimes and serious violations committed by the armed terrorist groups in Syria, hoping to monitor and uncover the circumstances of those crimes.

Syria demanded an immediate investigation on the establishment of foreign bodies and space stations broadcast from the Gulf states to recruit Syrian children as war correspondents

Jaafari said, “for example, the Permanent Delegation of the UN team of the Special Representative provided on February 6 2014, authentic documents on how those terrorist groups systematically and repeatedly attacked schoosl and bombing of hospitals, in addition to a list of 28 cases targeted by terrorist groups, schools, and 54 cases of killing maiming and abduction of children “.

 “On March 7 2014, Syria asked the UN Special Representative to conduct an immediate investigation on the establishment of foreign bodies and space stations broadcasting from Arab Gulf states to recruit Syrian children as warheads correspondents and informed the UN Special Representative, on April 7 in 2014 on the implementation of more than 18 thousand cases of trafficking human organs for Syrians in the northern regions of Syria, mostly in children and reports documenting that more than one hundred thousands Syrian children in the refugee camps in Turkey are vulnerable to human organs trafficking. “

 “We have repeatedly expressed our concern about the recruitment of Syrian children in camps in neighboring countries and demanded to take all that is needed to end the suffering of Syrian women and children in these camps, he said, questioning that Syria is still wondering what measures have been taken to expose the abuses committed by armed terrorist groups against the Syrian child.

T. Fateh