About conflicts in Middle-East and use of under-age combatants

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Kimmo Huosionmaa

One very traumatic thing in the Middle-East conflict is using children as soldiers in those conflicts. When ISIS or some other terrorist organization would deliver their propaganda, they introduce under-age persons, who are armed with assault rifles. And that version is probably in use at another side. The sultan's personal soldiers, Janissary have chosen in very young age, in Ottoman's Empire, and those warriors tradition have been transferred to modern Emir's special forces in Oman and other Middle-East countries.


There is one very interesting transformation about the Janissary training. The Sultan of Turkey claimed to those persons, that their parents were Christians, who have delivered their children as slaves to Sultan. That guaranteed the loyalty and hate against Christianity of those troops, what was known as their fanaticism and brave in the battle. The modern version of that political training could be that there would be that the children whose parents have been dead claimed that the terrorists or Islamic terrorists have caused the death of those persons, and that can cause hate for rest of that child's life.


Hate makes them the good target for the special forces recruiters, and if the death caused by the terrorist attack, would that increase the hate. In this version, the real reason for the death of those parents could be driven in drunk or overdose of heroin. The story, what will be told about that incident could motivate that person to take recruiting in some special units or mercenary companies could be surer than without that kind of motivator.  Have you ever thought that maybe somebody would guide the laser-guided bombs against civilians on purpose?


One of the most important purposes of showing child combatants is provoking the opponent to open the fire against targets, where are children. And then introducing those victims, would that terrorist organization want to get people sympathized their side. Smart weapons are very effective against tanks and hardened shelters. The use of those weapons is that the laser-guided bombs would be pointed to target, what is marked by the laser designator. The designator can be installed to the aircraft or it can use the operator, who might sit on the ground and point the laser designator to the target.


That person can be the regular combatant, special forces operator or agent. The use of those weapons has become more common because they give aircraft very effective tank busting capacity, and they help avoid the civilian casualties. But if the laser-guided weapon is targeted to the civilians, would the result be more deadly than making this strike by normal free-fall bombs. Sometimes smart weapons are criticized because they allow the assassination missions, where is used aircraft.



But the answer to critics has been that behind it is Russia or the Soviet Union, what wants to deny those bombs because they danger the tank-base tactics. But that might be only the propaganda of the CIA. And today is created very small size (1-10 kg) guided bombs, what can destroy any tank or cannon on the ground. And they can be used by F-15 or other fast attack aircraft, and they are created to replace cluster bombs in those anti-tank missions.

This painting could be from any battlefield around the world.

"Burned village"
Albert Edelfelt
(1879)

Kimmo Huosionmaa

Above this text is a painting, what we all know. It’s Albert Edelfelt’s “Burned village”, and it is the vision of the burned house. There is a couple of people managed to escape from that place before the military men came and killed all. This vision could be from any war in the world, and it could be the portrait of attack to some village in German Eastern front. Those cavalrymen were painted without details, what helps to return this kind of happenings in the mind if some person were in that kind of situation.


This painting could be the portrait of an attack against civilians. And the message of this painting, is somebody always sees, what really happened. This portrait might be used in some memory therapy, where the therapist tries to find out why some person sees nightmares all the time. So the question of this portrait is that it is painted in 1879, and this picture could be based on the real story.


And when we are thinking about the war crimes, this picture would portray anything from the medieval period to “Einsatzgruppen” actions in the Eastern front. There would be burning house, and a small child, who would not remember this thing in the adult age. But when this young boy returns to that place, would he remember everything, and in the worst case, could this boy became the knight, if he were adopted into the right family.


Remember that this boy would hide his past, and in this painting is a message, that even the child is small, would he grow bigger and stronger. In many war crimes the leader of those crimes would claim, that they have right to do that thing. This painting always makes me think many things. One is that why somebody wants to burn that village? Is that because the maker of that crime wanted to cause hate inside civilians minds?


In some “Einsatzgruppen” operations were used Ukrainian SS-men, who were used Soviet weapons, because the SS wanted that people hate Soviets. Those men were easy to liquidate as the war criminals, and nobody would ever believe, that orders made by the German army. Those units were known as “Terror” or T-units.

Somebody claims that NKVD had similar units, what used German uniforms and shot the co-operatives of SS. If this unit was true, It worked that those men came to the village in SS-uniforms, and then those men have executed those cooperatives immediately. This methodology was in use in the “Phoenix”-program, what was made by Americans in Vietnam War. The “Phoenix”-operators claimed that they were some kind of V.C sympathizers, and then those operators executed the V.C members, who came to talk with them.

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