He Turns Children into Highly Trained KILLING Machines

When they come here they are just children, when they are finished they are highly trained killing machines

In The disused school in a small city in northern Syria is a small handful of teenagers. Full of anticipation and eager to learn, but it's not math or science teaching children.

Children are the best soldiers

The teacher is a former soldier who shows them how a machine works. 

- When they come here they are just children, but by the time I'm done with them they are highly trained killing machines, says Abdel Razzaq .

The 38-year-old former sergeant in charge of the youngsters are trained physically and mentally to kill Assad's troops. 

- I teach them not to be afraid of war and not to hesitate when they kill, he says about his latest group of 20 boys aged 14-18 years. 

- There is simply no other adult males in the village, so now it's the children's turn to have  military fitness. 

He teaches them how to handle a Kalashnikov AK-47, one of the most common weapons in the world, but he also shows them how to disarm an enemy and kill with a knife or with  bare hands. 

- Children are the best soldiers I know. They follow all the commands. Where the adults questions or answers rudely-- not the children, said Razzaq.

Usually the family

Many of the boys are sent by their families to fight against the regime, others have come voluntarily. 

- I'm so bored at home, I just sat and waited for  father and brother  coming home from the front to tell me about the war, says 15-year-old Sobi. 

- Now we I go out and see it with  own eyes. 

Razzaqs "military academy" is located in the northern part of Aleppo Province in the small town Tlaleen. There, the boys have two hours daily training for three months before being sent to the front.

Unlike many other areas of conflict Razzaq urges families to youngsters that they are trained before they are sent off to war. 

- I want to honor my father who died, says sixteen year old Bashar who showed up with his brothers. 

- The large difference in Syria, in relation to the other conflict areas where child soldiers are used, is that no active recruitment of children. Young people come by themselves encouraged by family, says UNICEF coordinator Jean-Nicolas Beuze said. 

According to international regulations, no one under 18 is to participate in any form of warfare. Be it the intelligence work, transport or combat.

Bloody War

Human rights groups have previously accused both the government and the rebels of breaking the Geneva Convention repeatedly in a war in which more than 3,500 children have been killed. 

War in Syria is now becoming one of the bloodiest in the world today, with over 60,000 people killed in the nearly two-year-old civil war.

Now fighting rages around Damascus and, according to rebel forces they have now installed a new offensive in the capital.