Yazidi slave forced to become an ISIS child soldier reveals boy prisoners were lined up and told to raise their hands... and anyone with armpit hair was killed on the spot
WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT
Ahmed Aslef was just ten when terror group massacred 800 in his village
Children with no underarm hair were ruled too young to be murdered
They were sent to youth training camps to be groomed into sadistic killers
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Published: 11:14 EST, 15 December 2015 | Updated: 17:10 EST, 15 December 2015
A Yazidi slave who was forced to become an ISIS child soldier has told how his life was spared because he didn't have any armpit hair.
Ahmed Aslef was just ten years old when jihadi gunmen stormed the Iraqi village of Kocho, lined them up and massacred around 800 men, women and children last year.
He said the youngsters were told to raise their arms and those without underarm hair were judged too young to be murdered.
Those who did were ruled to be older than ten and shot on the spot, he added.
Too young to die: A Yazidi slave forced to become an ISIS child soldier (not pictured) at the terror group's Cubs of the Caliphate training camp has told how his life was spared because he didn't have any armpit hair
Slaughtered: Ahmed Aslef was just ten years old when jihadi gunmen stormed the Iraqi village of Kocho, lined them up and massacred around 800 men, women and children last year (pictured above)
They were instead recruited into the terror group's notorious youth wing, known as the Cubs of the Caliphate, to be groomed into sadistic killers.
His two young sisters also survived, but only to be sold as sex slaves along with other members of his family in the cities of Mosul and Raqqa.
Speaking to Lara Whyte from the International Business Times, Ahmed said: 'With Daesh (ISIS), I didn't go to school with girls. I didn't learn maths.
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'I was a very good boy. We learned how to use weapons. We learned how to throw grenades very far away. And we ran a lot for a long time.'
Hundreds of child soldiers have been shockingly indoctrinated into the bloodthirsty jihadi group's sickening ideology since it captured swathes of Iraq and Syria last year.
Children are recruited into the terror group's notorious youth wing, known as the Cubs of the Caliphate, to be groomed into sadistic killers
As well as learning about how to strip and re-assemble an AK-47 machine gun at camps, the child recruits are taught how to wrestle and perform close combat moves.
They are also used in the group's sickening propaganda photos and videos on social media which claim to show their child soldiers carrying out brutal executions.
Ahmed said he was held in captivity for nine months with his family across Iraq and Syria, confined to a single room and only allowed to leave to go to the toilet.
Many of his friends at the training camps came from various different countries including Morocco, Afghanistan, Algeria, Tunisia, Jordan and Germany, he added.
Ahmed eventually managed to escape with the help of covert networks working inside ISIS to free prisoners.
He is now living in a safe house in Stuttgart, Germany, with 70 other Yazidis after fleeing to Europe as part of a refugee project.
But his mother has stayed in Iraq awaiting news of his father and older brother who are feared to have been killed in the massacre.
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