Textbook candidates for re-education in Syria
by Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times
Apr 02, 2019
4 minutes
BEIRUT ââ There's a saying in Arabic: Learning while young is like carving in stone. (It rhymes in the original.)
The saying has come to the fore as authorities begin efforts to re-educate about 25,000 school-age children who are held in Al Hol, the desolate internment camp on the edge of eastern Syria for members of Islamic State's so-called caliphate and refugees from the communities the militant group controlled in Syria and Iraq.
With the radical group having lost the last of the land it controlled after nearly five years of warfare, authorities now face the challenge of re-educating the children of the militant fighters, most of them schooled from an early age in
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