CNN Exclusive: A 13-year-old witness to ISIS' beheadings, crucifixion in Syria

[Sally]

These young children should be home and not witnessing such things.

CNN Exclusive: A 13-year-old witness to ISIS' beheadings, crucifixion in Syria
By Raja Razek, Nick Paton Walsh, and Nick Thompson, CNN
August 29, 2014 -- Updated 0823 GMT (1623 HKT)
Source: CNN
STORY HIGHLIGHTS

• CNN interviews 13-year-old boy who went to ISIS camp for children in northern Syria
• The children at the camp witnessed lashings, stonings and crufixion, the boy says
• The boy's father was told he would be beheaded if he didn't allow his son to attend the camp`

(CNN) -- The little boy looks barely old enough to walk, let alone understand the dark world he's now inhabiting.

He should be toddling around a playground with his friends. But instead, he wears a black balaclava, crouched down in a desolate street with his tiny hands clenched around an AK-47

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[aris2chat]

I saw some of the crucifixion picture.

I grew numb from death during the war. After a time the smell and sights become like TV images outside by own shell.

 

[Sally]

I saw some of the crucifixion picture.

I grew numb from death during the war. After a time the smell and sights become like TV images outside by own shell.

Thankfully, Aris, we all are lucky to not have been through what you went through in Lebanon. I would imagine that only the posters and viewers here who were actually in combat and saw dead bodies lying around feel as you do.

 

[aris2chat]

I saw some of the crucifixion picture.

I grew numb from death during the war. After a time the smell and sights become like TV images outside by own shell.

Thankfully, Aris, we all are lucky to not have been through what you went through in Lebanon. I would imagine that only the posters and viewers here who were actually in combat and saw dead bodies lying around feel as you do.

I feel great empathy, but the visuals we see in the media and online to not phase me as much as it does other posters. It has become too common place. I get angry or sad but not the revulsion that I might have as a young adult. Too many years of living through the war, trying to forget, getting involved online as an activist to now. I just am not that "shocked" by the blood and gore, but I won't watch horror or scary movies, I also won't go to fireworks shows.