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University dons name child recruits
Gulf-News- Sinha Ratnatunaga,
07 February 2002.
A group of Tamil university dons and academics from northern Jaffna, who have long chronicled human rights abuses by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), have given a string of names of children forcibly recruited by the rebels, some of them as young as 12 years old, raising fears of the Tigers' intentions to push through with the peace process.
They also gave the names of people to whose houses the LTTE has broken into and damaged property because they have refused to send their children to join the LTTE.
"Schools in rural areas (under the control of the rebels) were grinding to a halt," the group, calling themselves the University Teachers for Human Rights, said adding that parents were fleeing to main towns in eastern Batticaloa as well as to Colombo.
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Published: Wed Feb 6 19:32:38 EST 2002
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