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Sri Lanka to report on child soldiers
upi,
February 19.
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Feb. 18 (UPI) -- A report from the Sri Lanka government on the recruitment of child soldiers in the country is expected to be presented to the United Nations.
Government officials announced plans to present the report on forced military indoctrination of children at the U.N. Security Council meeting on Thursday. The U.N. recently singled out the terrorist organization Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam operating in Sri Lanka as among the top human-rights violators in the world, Sri Lanka's Daily News reported.
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Published: Mon Feb 18 23:29:29 EST 2008
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LTTE urged to be sympathetic to animals
hindu.com,
19 feb.
Colombo (PTI): An animal rights group has urged LTTE supremo Prabhakaran to spare animals during armed attacks, following a grenade explosion at a zoo near here.
Suspected LTTE militants had set-off a grenade near a birds' enclosure at Dehiwala zoo on February 3 in which seven people, including two children, were injured.
"In addition to injuring several human beings - which was no doubt its intent - the explosive device that was set off near the zoo's birds enclosure terrified many animals in the zoo," said Ingrid E. Newkirk, president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) in a letter to the Tamil Tiger leader.
Newkirk said animals had become the victims in the cross-fire of wars all over the world leading to deaths of many of them intentionally or accidently.
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Published: Tue Feb 19 07:45:14 EST 2008
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U.N. chief asks his deputy to visit Sri Lanka
Associated Press,
Tue February 19, 2008 14:38 EST .
- - NEW YORK, Feb. 19 (Kyodo) U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon on Tuesday asked Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs Angela Kane to visit Sri Lanka for a week from Wednesday primarily to review the work of the U.N. Country Team in the South Asian nation in all key areas, his spokesperson said in a statement. ''The visit is part of her regular consultations in the areas of her responsibility,'' the statement said.
Published: Tue Feb 19 16:09:46 EST 2008
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