Most children used by Taliban as suicide bombers are from poor families who are indoctrinated through religious schools. "While adult suicide bombers may experience some 'existential grappling,' young children are unable to process the meaning of ending one's life, especially if rewards are promised in the afterlife." (Indoctrinating Children: The Making of Pakistan's Suicide Bombers)
In the late afternoon of April 3, 2011, in the Pakistani city of Dera Ghazi Khan, an annual Sufi Muslim religious festival at the shrine of the 13th century saint Ahmed Sultan was hit by twin suicide bomb attacks which killed over 50 people and left more than 120 wounded. As an eyewitness described the immediate aftermath of the bombings, "people started running outside the shrine. Women and children were crying and screaming. It was like hell".
The bombers had struck a few minutes apart, instantly turning the atmosphere of festivity and prayer into a scene of carnage and horror. As crowds of worshippers fled in terror, an elderly woman ran into a young boy out of whose hands dropped a grenade. His name was Umar Fidai, a 15-year-old, and he was the third intended suicide bomber that day. ……..Umar was shot and wounded by police and failed in his mission, but he is only one of the hundreds of other children it is believed that the Pakistani Taliban (TTP) have brainwashed and utilised as suicide bombers in their ongoing war with the state. To Read More…….
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