Name: Inside a school for suicide bombers
Uploaded: 2010-05-26T09:26:00Z
Duration: 7 min 52 s
Description: Filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy takes on a terrifying question: How does the Taliban convince children to become suicide bombers? Propaganda footage from a training camp is intercut with her interviews of young camp graduates. A shocking vision.

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy: Inside a school for suicide bombers

Inside a school for suicide bombers

Filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy takes on a terrifying question: How does the Taliban convince children to become suicide bombers? Propaganda footage from a training camp is intercut with her interviews of young camp graduates. A shocking vision.

Children in conflict zones are systematically recruited and trained as suicide bombers through a calculated five-step process. In Pakistan alone, over 500 bomb blasts shook communities in 2009, with recruiters targeting poor families and isolating children from outside information. Through violent indoctrination and promises of paradise, these children become convinced that martyrdom is their only path to meaning and glory. Deprivation, manipulation, and relentless propaganda strip away their choices, leaving them primed for violence.