Munza Mushtaq in Colombo,  Thu Mar  9 09:32:34 EST 2006

    The LTTE organization is giving arms training to more than 170
children mainly teenagers in two separate camps in Trincomalee and
Batticaloa, this was disclosed to security personnel by three
teenagers who escaped two of these arms training camps this week.

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- The Academic

Anyone who is able lift and operate with a sub-machine gun, or even throw a hand-grenade is considered by the LTTE as an adult, irrespective of his / her age.


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H.U.MAN




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Hay.......This can't be true..Parents handed over these kids to LTTE ,as far as we were told , and   asked to take good care of them. Now the LTTE is training them as murderers,suicide bombers,drug pushers and various other life skills.

So what's wrong !  Some naughty kids run away from   this training colleges  and this is  not  uncommon ..

Unlike in developed countries, where there are enough toys, these kids do not have toys. So when they see guns they run and come with these guns. When they get bigger, there parents are dead by the war brain dead, only thing they know is complaining, so they become LTTE caders.

Somehow, For a generation or two to come, sri lanka will be full of barbarian criminals to fill the gaps left criminals in the south.

I wish all these kids emigrate from sri lanka, so we do not have to go through these problems.

When I recall my memory about how we studied at the University of Peradeniya with tamils brothers and sisters and how we shared our food, clothes (Gaje), lecture notes, our Mahapola allowences any many more, I feel really sad. Same as Sinhalese and Muslim youths, they are very keen to have a good education.  All the Sri Lankans should protest against the destruction of valuable lives of young Sri Lankans in the name of useless war.


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I simply cannot understand why all these news reports are creating concerns like this.

Many pro-Tigers beleve such things are baseless and like few mentioned they support this training.

On top of that, to prove this UN has not done anything other than complaining.

Then the so called world humanitarian communities like Swiss and Norway are supporting Tigers beside these fact with facilitating money, fund raising and arms etc..

Many of us hope for a pre 1983 situation where there was no war. But what we forget is that it is those conditions that began the war. Unless something changes, we will never have peace.

The plight of thise of us trapped in this is sad. During the famous JVP insurrection in the late eighties, whenever a Hartal was called, we refrained from going to work. This is not because we supported the JVP, but rather because we were afraid of the repurcussions. When we saw bodies floating in our rivers, when our neghbours were taken away in unnumbered vehicles, we hated the govt for it. Amidst vehement denials, we knew who was responsible for these abductions. This was a terrible cat and mouse game that was played with our lives.

WHen I was at Peradeniya and a strike was called, we partcipated in it. Not because we were JVP supporters, but because we wanted to live and let live. Once there was an exam boycott. The Agriculture Faculty boycotted exams and Engineering JVPers enforced the boycot. However, when it came to the Engineering Faculty, the boycot failed and the JVPers sat for the exam. After that if you were detected to be JVP, you could have got assaulted. Then what happend was that the govt introduced a police post in the campus and they shot dead a medical student who was returning froma party. Although we were anti JVP at that time, they were the only ones who would stand up for us in the face of a bad situation. My take is that many of the tamils are in the same position as we were during that time.

We cannot point the finger and pin the blame on one party. War is like that. War destroys. Its war that is bad. Imagine parents bring up their children, having dreams for their future. Barely before their cuddly age is over, they are taken to be trained for war - they become cannon fodder. Then again, they could be abducted as LTTE suspects by the GOSL. The incident in Trinco speaks volumes for what happens in a war situation. Do not judge these people unless you can understand the cursed situation that they live under.

"However, Army Spokesman Brigadier Prasad Samarasinghe told the Lanka Academic that despite the statement of these three teenagers with regard to the arms training camps in Batticaloa and Trincomalee, they will not bring this matter to the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission's notice as they have no 'evidence to prove these children's allegation"

storey may be true but no evidence
so donn't come to conclutions without evidence
if it is true it concerns all of us
beware it may be a cooked up storey who knows?

ahilla wrote:

"However, Army Spokesman Brigadier Prasad Samarasinghe told the Lanka Academic that despite the statement of these three teenagers with regard to the arms training camps in Batticaloa and Trincomalee, they will not bring this matter to the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission's notice as they have no 'evidence to prove these children's allegation"

storey may be true but no evidence
so donn't come to conclutions without evidence
if it is true it concerns all of us
beware it may be a cooked up storey who knows?

Your yesterday's post and my response......
 

ahilla wrote:

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

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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.

SAMINDA wrote:

Hay.......This can't be true..Parents handed over these kids to LTTE ,as far as we were told , and   asked to take good care of them. Now the LTTE is training them as murderers,suicide bombers,drug pushers and various other life skills.

So what's wrong !  Some naughty kids run away from   this training colleges  and this is  not  uncommon ..

According to some reports, these kids join volunterily and do not disclose their true age.  Yes, it is common to run away from training camps in surch of parental care.  SLA too has deserters. So these things are more common.

wow look at those tears. what has happened to the south? all are up in arms to protect the tamil children
very nice. trust there are no other ulterior motive for the southern hearts to bleed for these poor tamil children who's houses schools their parents all taken by the SLG because they belong to  tamils
friends dont cry for the tamil children cry for you souls. look at your children.
if your hearts truly hurts for these tamil children then solve the problem have some XXXXX to do that
rather than tring score political milage off these children. let you SLA know not to rape and steal frm the children. we the tamils will look after them also how true is this report? well it is true for blinds in the south. time will tell
tamils are tigers tigers are tamils
take it or leave it

It is nothing new that children are taught to handle weapons.  Ask any hunter.  Their children know how to use a rifle.  What is dispicable is to send underage kids to the war front.  Sometime ago LTTE produced an underaged fighter from the Col. Karuna faction.  Of course, that news item didn't receive the same treatment.  Also, we do not discuss the pedophiles who harm hundreds of thousands of children in the south or the plight of poor women raped and abused in the middle east.  Such is our mindset now.

Sricanada:

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wow look at those tears. what has happened to the south? all are up in arms to protect the tamil children
very nice. trust there are no other ulterior motive for the southern hearts to bleed for these poor tamil children who's houses schools their parents all taken by the SLG because they belong to tamils
friends dont cry for the tamil children cry for you souls. look at your children.

For your information, mine is not sourthern heart or tears, but one from the North.   Moreover, you don't have to be a Tamil to feel for plight of unfortunate children whether they are Tamils, Muslims or Singhalese.  You just need a human heart.  That's enough.  I truly worry for the terrible situation  in which the children as well as the adult Tamil population are caught up in North-east SL.  Do you really have any concern for poor children, or are you satisfied in getting some vain glory through the LTTE violence?


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bairavi wrote:

Sricanada:

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wow look at those tears. what has happened to the south? all are up in arms to protect the tamil children
very nice. trust there are no other ulterior motive for the southern hearts to bleed for these poor tamil children who's houses schools their parents all taken by the SLG because they belong to tamils
friends dont cry for the tamil children cry for you souls. look at your children.

For your information, mine is not sourthern heart or tears, but one from the North.   Moreover, you don't have to be a Tamil to feel for plight of unfortunate children whether they are Tamils, Muslims or Singhalese.  You just need a human heart.  That's enough.  I truly worry for the terrible situation  in which the children as well as the adult Tamil population are caught up in North-east SL.  Do you really have any concern for poor children, or are you satisfied in getting some vain glory through the LTTE violence?

This is a good example for stereotyping which I believe is one of the causes of this division.

Hearts are hearts whether they are southern or northern.

Heartlessness is the issue weather in motherland or elsewhere.