ISIS Kidnaps 145 Kurdish Children To 'Brainwash Them Into Suicide Bombing & Mindless killers'

ISIS Kidnaps 145 Kurdish Children To 'Brainwash Them Into Suicide Bombing and Mindless killers' (AINA).

The jihadist group that has seized swathes of Iraq in a lightning campaign has kidnapped dozens of children in Syria and plans to use them as suicide bombers, activists warned.

Fighters with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isis) have abducted 145 elementary school children of Kurdish origins in northern Syria.

"The children were kidnapped on the Aleppo-Minbej road while returning to the Ayn al-Arab (Kobani) city after completing their exams in regime-held areas of Aleppo city," the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said.

The activist group, which has been reliably reporting on the Syrian civil war for over three years, said the abduction took place at the end of May.

SOHR said that parents were frantic that extremist militants were brainwashing their children to then send them to their deaths as suicide bombers.

In the latest development, Isis fighters have invaded Iraq's biggest oil refinery in Baiji and are now controlling 75% of the facility.

"Five students, who were able to flee from their kidnapers, told their parents that the Isis offered them recruitment and gave them lessons of 'Jihad and fighting the enemies of god and apostates'," SOHR said.

Run by jihadist Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Isis was formed in Iraq shortly after the 2003 US-led invasion.
The group has exploited the chaos sparked by the civil war in neighbouring Syria to carve out a safe haven from where it has launched attacks back into Iraq.

75,000 children have gone missing in India without a trace in three years: Government.

75,000 children have gone missing in India without a trace in three years: Government.(NDtv).

New Delhi: Around 75,000 children have gone missing in the last three years in the country and are still untraced, the Rajya Sabha was informed on Wednesday.

Of the about 2.36 lakh children who went missing in the last three years, 1,61,800 have been traced, Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Paban Singh Ghatowar said during the Question Hour."Unfortunately about 75,000 are still untraced," he said.

Mr Ghatowar, who was replying on behalf of Women and Child Development Minister Krishna Tirath, admitted that the issue of missing children has assumed an "alarming" proportion.

He informed the House that a web portal 'TrackChild' has been launched on a pilot basis to deal with the issue.States are also being asked to update data on missing children on the portal, he said.

The Minister further said the problem of children going missing was due to economic and social reasons and also due to criminal activities. He, however, said there was no information that missing children were being sold in neighboring countries.

When asked about children being kidnapped from hospitals, he said there have been such cases but law and order is a state subject. As per a data of National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), 34,406 children were untraced in 2011, 23,236 in 2010 and 18,166 in the previous year.Hmmmm.......India 'Where Rape and Child kidnapping' flourish.Read the full story here.