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Indian military expert to advise Sri Lanka on resettlement of Tamils
Associated Press,
Fri January 31, 2003 06:03 EST .
SHIMALI SENANAYAKE - Associated Press Writer - COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - (AP) An Indian military expert will advise Sri Lanka - 's government on how to resolve a dispute over resettlement of tens of thousands of ethnic Tamils displaced from areas occupied by government security forces, a senior official said Friday. Nambiar visited Sri Lanka - in December and suggested in preliminary recommendations at that time that the military remain in the ``high-security'' areas until the Tigers disarm. His upcoming report is not expected to deviate significantly from his original advice. The rebels have agreed in the peace talks to abandon their earlier demand for secession and accept self-rule in Tamil-dominated areas. The rebels accuse the country's Sinhalese majority of discriminating against Tamils in education and jobs. About 65,000 people have died in the fighting.
Published: Fri Jan 31 10:39:41 EST 2003
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ASK DR. SWAMY!
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Dr. Subramanian Swamy
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ANSWERS 1-24 NOW AVAILABLE
[HERE]
The Lanka Academic is delighted to announce its next guest in its
series of Q & A sessions: Dr. Subramanian Swamy, President,
Janata Party, India. We are indeed gratified by his appearence at The
Lanka Academic to answer questions from our readers.
We hope our readers would avail themselves of this opportunity to
educate themselves on the Indian perspective on the on-going peace
process and the other developments in all spheres of politics
with respect to India and Sri Lanka.
Submit your questions for Dr. Swamy and view his answers here. As usual, we will forward your questions to him
in batches and will post the answers as they arrive.
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Analysis: Sri Lanka's child soldiers
BBC,
January 31.
The UN children's agency is trying to find out what Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels are doing about their child soldiers. The issue is casting a shadow over peace talks.Allegations of child recruitment have dogged the Tamil Tiger rebels for years.Some of the surrendered Tiger male fighters are obviously underage because their voices have not broken yet
So much so that they have become a powerful propaganda tool used against them by the Sri Lankan military and other opponents.
There is no doubt the rebels have extensively recruited under aged fighters - boys and girls sometimes as young as 12-years-old. Many have been forcibly abducted from their parents. The Sri Lankan Government and the United Nations children's organisation (Unicef) have been made aware of the problem but have not yet done anything to help return home boys like Ganesh and Haran.
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Published: Fri Jan 31 22:06:25 EST 2003
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UNICEF boss opens talks with Tamil Tigers on child soldiers
ProLog,
COLOMBO, Jan 31 (AFP) .
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Friday opened talks with Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels on their practice of recruiting child soldiers, officials here said. UNICEF executive director Carol Bellamy travelled to the rebel-held town of Kilinochchi for discussions with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) on Friday, the second day of a three-day visit to the island.
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Published: Fri Jan 31 10:40:15 EST 2003
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