LTTE violates Children's Rights - Human Rights Watch

International human rights group- Human Rights Watch claim that the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Ealam - LTTE has failed to release the children from its ranks by December 31, 2007, the deadline it agreed to under the terms of an action plan signed on October 15, 2007.

“The LTTE has ignored repeated appeals to end its use of child soldiers,” said Joe Becker, children's rights advocate at HRW.

The LTTE, who claims to be the guardians of the entire Tamil community abducted thousands of children from their schools and use them in their war fronts. While doing so, this self-elected Liberator of Tamils could "liberate" hundreds of Tamil children at their front defence lines.

The security forces have found letters written by some of them, in which they have heavily criticized and cursed the LTTE leadership for ruining their lives.

LTTE still maintain several brigades which are totally run by child soldiers. The tragedy here is to see that the children of LTTE leaders are enjoying special privileges while the children of the poor are forced to the war fronts.

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