Pakistan military working in the Swat Valley have rescued child soldiers held by the Taliban. It appears that they were being groomed as child soldiers and as suicide bombers by the Taliban. " They have been brainwashed and trained as suicide bombers, but the nine who I...
" FAIRNESS cream; scented hair oil; talcum powder: these are things that female ex-combatants of the Tamil Tiger rebels, many forcibly recruited as children, hesitantly ask for when placed in rehabilitation....
"Sri Lanka not to prosecute child LTTE soldiers: Rajapaksa Colombo (PTI): In a humanitarian gesture to Tamils, Sri Lanka has said that child soldiers recruited by the LTTE would not be prosecuted, and instead...
" At a camp situated on top of a hill overlooking scenic rubber and coconut plantations in Sri Lanka, more than 100 former Tamil Tiger child soldiers are undergoing a year-long rehabilitation course. Bala, who is...
" RANJENDRAN HAS the acne and somewhat awkward gait of many a 17-year-old schoolboy. He has already completed is O-Levels and is studying for his A-Level examinations, the local equivalent of the Leaving...
"Kumudha absent-mindedly fiddles with her left forefinger. Then, looking embarrassed, she hurriedly tucks it into the foldsof her skirt. She often forgets that she has no forefinger. Only a stub. The finger was...
Detainees are gradually being removed from Gitmo. Child soldier, Mohammad Al-Qurani, also knowns as al-Gharani has been repatriated to Chad. Al-Qurani was apprehended in Pakistan in 2001 when he was 14 years...
" by Hannah Gardner, Foreign Correspondent AMBEPUSSA, SRI LANKA Suresh has a sweet face and gentle manner. His skinny body and the downy fuzz on his upper lip mark him out as boy who is still a couple of...
" By Mia Bloom Sunday, May 24, 2009 It took a pitched two-hour gun battle with Sri Lankan special forces. Then a rocket launched into his armor-plated ambulance. But last Monday, death finally came to Velupillai...
" COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Canada is sending another $3-million in foreign aid to Sri Lanka to help the country meet the humanitarian needs of ethnic Tamils displaced by civil war. Bev Oda, the Minister of...
"Tamil Tigers 'putting 11-year-old girls on the front line' Child soldiers including girls as young as 11 have been forced to fight on the front line by retreating Tamil Tiger rebels, senior Sri Lankan...
Video shows the Wanni operation as on 2 may 2009"" Tamil terrorists group ltte begun their terrorism by killing a Moderate Tamil politician, Mr. A T Duraiyappah SLFP Mayor for Jaffna and now at the...
The web is full of photographs of innocent civilians, some of which are doctored and some are not. As for the "Little Red Book"of Mao Tse-Tung and Tsun-Su's "Art of War", they recommend that warriors (in this...
In North America when a child goes missing or is abducted, the police is notified and everything is done to try and bring that child home to their family. In other parts of the world, in districts of northern...
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Omar Khadr was arrested as a 15 year old in Afganistan, accused of throwing a grenade that killed a US soldier. He was sent to the infamous Guantanamo Prison in Cuba and has been there since. Evidence...