Kurdish officials in northeast Syria have expanded a program to rehabilitate boys from the extremist Islamic State group's ideology - and their families - in a sprawling camp that's home to 50,000. Rights groups say the practice could mean more trauma.
Fearing that a new generation of militants will emerge from al-Hol Camp, the Kurdish officials who govern eastern and northern Syria are experimenting with a rehabilitation program aimed at pulling children out of extremist thought.
It means, however, removing them from their mothers and families for an unknown period of time, a practice that has raised concerns among rights groups. And even if they are deemed rehabilitated, the childrens’ future remains in limbo with their home countries reluctant to take them back. “If these children stay in the camp, this will lead to the rise of a new generation of extremists who could be more fanatic than those who were before,” said Khaled Remo, co-chair of the Kurdish-led administration’s office of justice and reform affairs.
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