Yahoo,  Fri Feb 16 13:09:06 EST 2007

    Sri Lanka's Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam group defended the recruitment of minors into its ranks and said it will continue to draft youths aged under 18.

The rebel group, which has been fighting for a separate homeland for two decades, rejected United Nations demands that it raise its minimum recruitment age from 17 to 18.
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- The Academic

Will Kumar "big Kroner salary" Rupesinghe, Jehan Perera and false accent Paikyasoththi Saravanamuttu connected to the discredited former regime say now?  Is it all a "mistake"? Will they come out strongly against Tigers? Or will they bark only when the Nordics tell them to? Interesting to see  them and the other so called Human rights dudes in Colombo react.

so now the united nations is also supporting the terrorist, this is an internationally listed terrorist group that the UN is talking and telling them to recruit people to continue to do more terrorism, whether underage or otherwise. =)

this is the cow dung SL government is following as well, at the expense of the innocent people, the statement should be laydown the arms and join the democratic government, not elam which should never ever take place.

its either we live as SL or fight to make it so. nothing less,

Who said freedom is free! You have to fight for it under a decolonised leadership.

So the key word here is claiming the ``de facto state’’. This is the very reason that some are arguing to abrogate the CFA before it completes the 5 years, since it could be used as a land mark though the CFA is in reality does not exist. All what LTTE need people like Kumar Jehan Dilan & others to voice & canvas the opinion of the ``de facto state’’ and if LTTE could get some few countries to accept then that will be the stepping stone for a separate state.


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MAC

I too tink the time has come to get rid of the white tigers. As long as white tigers are in our country they will work with the LTTE and it is too dangeres to us lankens. In this case i do agree with JVP. Bihhus are doing a good job. I hope MR will work with JVP and chase the white tigers away from our nation.

DR.No wrote:

I too tink the time has come to get rid of the white tigers. As long as white tigers are in our country they will work with the LTTE and it is too dangeres to us lankens. In this case i do agree with JVP. Bihhus are doing a good job. I hope MR will work with JVP and chase the white tigers away from our nation.

oops too late.
MR chased away JVP.

DR.No wrote:

I too tink the time has come to get rid of the white tigers. As long as white tigers are in our country they will work with the LTTE and it is too dangeres to us lankens. In this case i do agree with JVP. Bihhus are doing a good job. I hope MR will work with JVP and chase the white tigers away from our nation.

Yeah yeah.

But, would you want to refresh our memories with the first attackers of the Dalada Maligawa since independence?

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Sri Lanka's Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam group defended the recruitment of minors into its ranks and said it will continue to draft youths aged fewer than 18.

Well, I can understand the LTTE.  According to a present report, 15 British solders under 18 years have sent to Iraq since 2003.  Britain is one of the countries who ratified UN protocol against child solders!

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The rebel group, which has been fighting for a separate homeland for two decades, rejected United Nations demands that it raise its minimum recruitment age from 17 to 18.
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LTTE set their own rules.  Since pregnant women (some say it is a fake pregnancy!) used as suicide bombers it can be argued that LTTE will bring the recruitment age to a fetus!

Negombo says,

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MR chased away JVP.

They are around.  They did not come from another country.  They have to live and die here as LTTE.

TARGET wrote:

Who said freedom is free! You have to fight for it under a decolonised leadership.

Yes, You have to set a TARGET for it.  You have to fight.  What maters is, where you fight, for what you fight, under whom you fight.  In our case some fight living in under the ground and some fight above the ground!

I think the objective of having a war is the key.No nation in the world won a war without this objective because military is a disciplined body trained for objectives. Americans lost in Vietnam and Iraq because objective wasn't clear. Hitler had the objective by lost when attacked Russia.

At least present govt in SL I believe identified the objective which is to preserve unitary state and distroy the terrorist menace by stopping recruitment of children, doesn't matter under ground or above you have security forces to handle any situation.

TARGET wrote:

I think the objective of having a war is the key.No nation in the world won a war without this objective because military is a disciplined body trained for objectives. Americans lost in Vietnam and Iraq because objective wasn't clear. Hitler had the objective by lost when attacked Russia.

At least present govt in SL I believe identified the objective which is to preserve unitary state and distroy the terrorist menace by stopping recruitment of children, doesn't matter under ground or above you have security forces to handle any situation.

All right.
finally after 23 years we going to do it.
and who ever don't agree that we can win this war are LTTE supporters.

Negombo
just a question : what is your opinion on the LTTE's stated intent to recruit minors ?

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Proximus wrote:
Negombo
just a question : what is your opinion on the LTTE's stated intent to recruit minors ?

Would you ask the same question about the British government? They do the same thing. The LTTE said it would recruit those under 18 but not send them to the battle front.  The pledge not to recruit those under 18 was undertaken voluntarily by the LTTE in 2003 while the CFA was in effect.  They say they are no longer bound by them.
Anyway, let's cut out the crocodile tears and the hypocrisy about the child soldiers.  It's all politics.  Nobody seems to care so long as the child soldiers are fighting on their side!