Sri Lanka army is accused of recruiting child soldiers for rebel ... - Telegraph.co.uk

By Peter Foster, South Asia correspondent Last Updated: 2:20am GMT 14/11/2006 The United Nations has accused Sri Lanka's security forces of helping to recruit child soldiers for a break-away faction of the Tamil separatist movement. Allan Rock, the special adviser to the UN Representative for Children and Armed Conflict, said that government soldiers had been rounding up young Tamil children in the east of the country. Young Tamil Tiger soldiers: the Sri Lankan government has now been accused ...