Teenager trained to be a suicide bomber released
Trained as a suicide bomber in a Pakistani madrassa, or religious school, Rafiqullah was instructed to kill an Afghan governor. After walking eight hours to the Afghan border, Rafiqullah was given an explosive vest and instructions from a man named Abdul Aziz.
“I said I was afraid to carry out the suicide attack, and Abdul Aziz pointed a gun at me and said ‘I'll kill you if you don’t,’” Rafiqullah said in an interview.
Karzai said of the case: “Today we are faced with a fearful and terrifying truth, and that truth is the sending of a Muslim child to carry out a suicide attack.”
The Afghan government presented Rafiqullah with $2,000 in order to return to
Last month, reports surfaced that a 6-year-old boy had been recruited by Taliban forces to be a suicide bomber. According to Rafiqullah, two other teenagers from his madrassa had also been pegged to conduct suicide attacks. The United Nations considers the use of child combatants to be a war crime.
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