{"id":5323,"date":"2018-01-16T14:03:51","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T14:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/5323-somalia-s-shabab-militants-forcing-civilians-to-hand-over-children-hrw\/"},"modified":"2018-01-16T14:03:51","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T14:03:51","slug":"somalia-s-shabab-militants-forcing-civilians-to-hand-over-children-hrw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/5323-somalia-s-shabab-militants-forcing-civilians-to-hand-over-children-hrw\/","title":{"rendered":"Somalia&#8217;s Shabab militants forcing civilians to hand over children: HRW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Human Rights Watch has warned that the Somalia-based Takfiri terrorist group of al-Shabab is forcing civilians to hand over their young children for \u201cindoctrination and military training.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h4>Human Rights Watch has warned that the Somalia-based Takfiri terrorist group of al-Shabab is forcing civilians to hand over their young children for \u201cindoctrination and military training.\u201d<\/h4>\n<h4>The international rights organization made the revelation in a statement on Monday, saying the terrorist group had launched an aggressive campaign to recruit children since mid-2017, with threats of retaliation against communities who refused to cooperate.<\/h4>\n<h4>Since late September 2017, the al-Qaeda-linked militant group has ordered elders, teachers in religious schools, and communities in rural areas to provide hundreds of children as young as 8 or face attack, according to the statement.<\/h4>\n<h4>The recruitment was reportedly taking place in three districts in Somalia\u2019s southern Bay region, which is largely under the control of the terrorist outfit.<\/h4>\n<h4>The New York-based rights organization also revealed that the terrorist group had opened large religious schools in Bay region since 2015, bringing in young children and pressuring teachers to teach the al-Shabab curriculum and avoid &#8220;foreign teachings.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/h4>\n<h4>HRW quoted village elders near Baidoa in southwestern Somalia as saying that al-Shabab militants had ordered them in September to hand over dozens of children between the ages of nine and 15.<\/h4>\n<h4>\u00a0<\/h4>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-16102\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/01\/images_2018_01_16_04.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"748\" height=\"421\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/01\/images_2018_01_16_04.jpg 650w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/01\/images_2018_01_16_04-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 748px) 100vw, 748px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Human Rights Watch has warned that the Somalia-based Takfiri terrorist group of al-Shabab is forcing civilians to hand over their young children for \u201cindoctrination and military training.\u201d \u00a0 Human Rights Watch has warned that the Somalia-based Takfiri terrorist group of al-Shabab is forcing civilians to hand over their young children for \u201cindoctrination and military training.\u201d &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":16101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[65,443,1076,516],"class_list":["post-5323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-africa","tag-al-shabab","tag-somalia","tag-terrorists"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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