Syria has always been a pioneer in providing for all the needs of children an...

Syria has always been a pioneer in providing for all the needs of children and in promoting their rights and protection, in particular quality free education and medical services. This fact has been recognized in the reports of specialized United Nations agencies over decades. However, it is regrettable that the current crisis in Syria has led to inhumane extremist manifestations that are contrary to the Syrian values of moderation. Syrian children were the first to suffer under the practices of mercenaries and takfiris openly imported from all parts of the world to impose obscurantist Wahhabi ideas on our children and young people and commit the most horrific crimes against Syrian children. They recruit these children and youngsters and train them to commit the most horrific crimes of terror — slaughter, kidnapping. maiming, dismemberment, beheading with axes and swords, disemboweling pregnant women, hanging their foetuses on trees by the umbilical cord, and human and organ trafficking. Those are just some examples.