Kyrgyz youths recruited to join Syrian opposition

Source : The Voice of Russia

In Kyrgyzstan young people are recruited to take part in the Syrian conflict on the side of the opposition, Director of a Kyrgyz analytical centre Kadyr Malikov told The Voice of Russia.

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He said that it was mostly done through the Internet by the so-called Internet imams who urge young people to join the jihad on radical websites. Actually, they build up an extremist ideology, the analyst stressed.

Over the last few months 15 young people aged between 15 and 20 left the southern districts of Kyrgyzstan for Turkey. Almost all of them told their parents that they were going to find a job abroad. It turned out later that the youths were recruited by emissaries of terrorist organisations and subsequently sent to militants’ camps to be further transported to Syria.

These shocking facts were revealed by Kyrgyz MP Dastanbek Jumabekov.

Voice of Russia