Associated Press,  Wed Mar  8 08:47:34 EST 2006

    DILIP GANGULY  -   Associated Press Writer  -              COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -  (AP)  Three underage combatants pressed into service by the Tamil Tiger rebels escaped from the group and have surrendered to police and the navy in northeastern Sri Lanka - , the military said Wednesday.        The rebels, who want autonomy for Sri Lanka - 's 3.2 million Tamil minority, are often accused of recruiting child soldiers.
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This news is wrong. LTTE did not not have 'child soldiers' to escape from anywhere.  Nor will it !

     

Denial of child soldiers is a very small lie compared to other two lies this terrorist outfit built on....
1) NE historical Tamil kingdom
2) Tamil discrimination....

Dear "selvan"

selvan wrote:

Denial of child soldiers is a very small lie compared to other two lies this terrorist outfit built on....
1) NE historical Tamil kingdom
2) Tamil discrimination....

Like most Sinhalese chauvinists you are identifying the LTTE with the entire Tamil race and thus you are doing a wonderful job for the LTTE in the process.  So are you telling us that when the Tamils of Colombo were being murdered in 1983, they didn't flee to Northern Province where they felt safer?  Or that the Upcountry Tamils did not flee to Eastern Province because again they felt safer there????  

Or maybe you're telling us that 1983 riots never actually happened and it was one giant hoax engineered by the devious Tamils and their Western allies??????


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wow the bleeding hearts for tamil children
May the good god bless you all

SRICANADA wrote:

wow the bleeding hearts for tamil children
May the good god bless you all

Everybody loves children no matter they are Tamil or Sinhalese or any other race. Only exception is LTTE.

Even if you win your so called ‘home land’ what are you going to do with a generation who knows only to kill, set bombs, suicide..Etc.

Right, it is not your or my children, it is also not the children of the “national leader”, so who cares. Children from some “low-cast” eastern tamil, they are ok for the frontline.

Taraki, no need to worry about the Upcountry Tamils they are doing much better than the Jaffna Tamils. Thank you “national leader”!

SRICANADA wrote:

wow the bleeding hearts for tamil children
May the good god bless you all

Nice touch invoking God to bless Child Soliders.

But I do agree with you. Tamil Children are the sole property of Tamils
just like the sole representative etc etc.. Only Tamils( read SuriyaThevan) have a right to
decide on the R(Pl)ight of Tamil Childern. It is up to the Tamils to determine
whether
1. TamilChildren should attend school, learn and have a normal life.
2. TamilChildren should be "persuaded" to become human bombs.
3. TamilChildren should attend University of Carleton and be weekend warriors during Maveer Month.
4. Druvika can study medicine in Ireland while average Eastern Tamil Child can study how to disassemble
    an AK47.

If you are a Sinhalese/Muslim or anything other than a Jaffna Tamil your expressions of concern
are just crocodile tears..If you belong to UNICEF /Human Rights Watch and issue pages and pages
on Child Conscription it doesn't really matter since Jaffna Tamils know better than any other
do gooders on what the Tamil kids ought to be doing. In other words.. buzz off..


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Whether it is child soldiers orany form of child abuse must be stopped and condemned.  Sri Lanka is known as the capital of child sex.  Is there anyone worried about children in sex trade.  To make it worse GOSL wanted to bring down the age for consent sex to fourteen.

Child soldier issue is merely political.  GOSL is not worried when children are made orphans by aeriial bombing during war, but the politians are shedding crocodile tears about child soldiers.  Prevention is better than cure.


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I think I can now add Associated press to my list of unreliable news sources  

For the last three-four years, the Child Protection Authority has been strengthening its activities, to protect children (though one can still argue that it needs improvement). I personally think it is unfair to say that the state is concerned only about child soldiers, even though some politicians might be.

On the other hand, what we see from the LTTE side are the following:

1. Abduction and forceful weapon training of children
2. Continous child soldier recruitment
3. Sexual abuse of child soldiers in their camps (they finally punished one guy recently, but this also seems to be becasue of wanting to punish him rather than to stop child abuse)
4. Protecting child abusers like Pongu Ganesh and the foriegner whom the police were trying to arrest. I guess they could still handover the foriegner to the SLMM if they really care for children and they did not want to protect him.


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Taraki wrote:

Dear "selvan"

Like most Sinhalese chauvinists you are identifying the LTTE with the entire Tamil race and thus you are doing a wonderful job for the LTTE in the process.  So are you telling us that when the Tamils of Colombo were being murdered in 1983, they didn't flee to Northern Province where they felt safer?  Or that the Upcountry Tamils did not flee to Eastern Province because again they felt safer there????  

Or maybe you're telling us that 1983 riots never actually happened and it was one giant hoax engineered by the devious Tamils and their Western allies??????

Dear Taraki,
1983 has nothing to do with so called Tamil discrimination or mythical Tamil kingdom existed in NE.
If you want to read more about Tamil discrimination before 1983, please read the link below. You may not like it, 'cos it's from SPUR. http://www.spur.asn.au/facts.htm

http://www.spur.asn.au/childwar.htm A good source to learn about child soldier issue in Sri Lanka.

Please dont mis-interpret. I never meant to say that all Tamils are LTTE supporters. Infact only a very small percentage of Tamils support LTTE voluntarily. Most of others have to follow the orders in fear of their lives or their relatives in NE.
That explains why there is very low Tamil population inside LTTE occupied land than the other parts of Sri Lanka.

A lot happened after 1983. http://www.spur.asn.au/ltteatrp.htm    This document contains some photographs of poor innocent children, women and men brutally massacred by the LTTE terrorists.

I posted above links just to show how different LTTE from common tamils, who never even take non-veg meals.

Children of those expatriate Tamils go to schools in foreign countries with all the facilities a school going kid should have. So does the children of many frontline leaders of LTTE.  It's only the poor children who get caought up in the war and been used as cannon fodder.  Those who posts comments here in this forum praising the valor of the LTTE, I know many of them live in the western countries rather than in SL, have their children protected, nourished and provided with every possible thing for the betterment of their lfuture ives, while they do not, never seem to think of the plight of the poor children back in Sri Lanka.  Would they be sending out their children to serve in their so-called EELAM? Never.  Would they themselve go back to EELAM, if it happened to materialise and ruled by thier God-sent leader?  Never.  Do they ever really worry about the poor people there? I don't think so. If they did,  they would not be posting silly comments in this forum.  

Humanism? well the human nature of many a Tamils have come down to such a pathetic condition that they cannot think and act rightly, justly and bravely.  (bravely in thoughts, not bravado in speech)


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why cann't the news reporter put extra effort to identify the military officer and the child soldiers by naminig and/or digital images
storey should stand on facts not heresay evedence

ahilla wrote:

why cann't the news reporter put extra effort to identify the military officer and the child soldiers by naminig and/or digital images
storey should stand on facts not heresay evedence

http://www.nmatnet.com/news/news/data/upimages/Child_soldiers-colombo.gif

Two children escaped from a LTTE camp in Sampur yesterday brought to Colombo Naval headquarters for further investigations. Sivanathasundaram Chandrakumar showing his skill in handling a T-56 weapon, while K. Vinoharan looks on.

09 Mar 2006
Source : http://www.nmatnet.com/news/index.php

hey every one, what's point of all these ideas as they are not being put it in to effective use.

Tigers never accepts that they have child soldiers, even children come and give evidence in an internation court.

UN has not done anything positive about this knowing it's a fact. At least they have not pressure international community to pressure Tigers.