The UN has released a horrifying new report that claims that ISIS—also known as The Islamic State—is regularly using children as suicide bombers, human shields and is even selling them as sex slaves. Children who are “mentally challenged” have been particularly targeted because they do not have a full awareness of what’s happening to them. The radical militant group has also executed children by crucifying them or burying them alive.
One of the members of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child told Reuters that they are “deeply concerned at torture and murder of those children, especially those belonging to minorities, but not only from minorities.” Kids from communities of Christians and Yazidis—as well as fellow Muslims—are vulnerable to the campaign of “systematic killing of children belonging to religious and ethnic minorities by the so-called ISIS, including several cases of mass executions of boys, as well as reports of beheadings, crucifixions of children and burying children alive.” The U.N. committee has asked authorities in Iraq to do whatever they can to save the children and end the violence against them …