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.

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

A five-step process by the Taliban transforms children into suicide bombers, exploiting poverty, ignorance, and ideology.

Through propaganda and indoctrination, children are convinced that martyrdom in a suicide attack is a path to glory and paradise.

Taliban schools indoctrinate children with skewed religious teachings, preparing them for suicide missions in a five-step process.