Child Soldiers & LTTE

Above all the accusations I have heard of LTTE recruiting child soldiers, why Sri Lankan government is recruiting child soldiers for a breakaway faction of rebels group? If the government is actually interested in the Tamils children lives should not the children be educated? Given an opportunity to thrive? Why the Sri Lankan government and Army are recruiting Tamils children soldiers to die for another group? If Sri Lankan Government and Army are so concerned about under aged children in LTTE, why not take this opportunity give education and other basic necessities of life to the children they can?

The fact is children in the North & East Tamils regions don't have choices. The Tamils children’s choices come down to pure survival. There are many orphans due to Sri Lankan Army attacks on Tamils civilians. These orphans and other children have very few choices. One of them is to join LTTE to fight for Tamils autonomy and they willingly do so.

Sri Lankan government propaganda's about child soldiers in LTTE, but they themselves have many in their Sri Lankan Army; Sri Lankan government does not give or create any opportunities for Tamils children. If they do, why would anybody under aged would want to join LTTE? If the Sri Lankan Government says that the LTTE has abducted many under aged and hard to free them, why not give opportunities to the ones you can, like the ones in the news below? Why let them die too?

LTTE did try to repair their name from having children in their military. These are orphans of the attacks of Sri Lankan government and Sri Lankan government won’t setup any orphanage to care for these children. Hence the children only felt as they can go to LTTE.

Chencholai was one of the attempts. However, only reviews the LTTE got were they are training children to become LTTE. The children were educated, fed had a shelter and were not part of the war. However the Sri Lankan Government purposefully bombed the Chencholai Children Orphanage and killed the children even though it knew all casualties would be children.

http://sthweb.bu.edu/shaw/anna-howard-shaw-center/biography?view=mediawiki&article=Chencholai_bombing

http://www.greenleft.org.au/2006/680/7821

If that would be the fate of Tamils children regardless of whether they are in LTTE or outside LTTE, why not join the LTTE and at least fight for a cause before you die? Would not you get the same mentality if you put in the same position? That’s why there are children soldiers in the LTTE.

Why the government did not attempt to capture the Chencholai Children and rehabilitate their lives? Why purposefully kill children? As far as the Sri Lankan Government concerned any Tamil’s death is not a loss, regardless of their age, it is a gain to add to their statistic of rooting out of Tamils from Sri Lanka.

As far as Sri Lankan government and Army concerned there is no distinction between Tamils and Tamils Tigers. Under aged children or elderly can be Tigers too regardless of where they are and what they do.

Tamils in Sri Lanka are not even fighting for advancement anymore. The war on Tamils civilians has come down to basic survival - just living, having food and having a shelter have come as luxuries to these Tamils and the children and there are still people out there feel obligated to criticize these Tamils civilians’ deaths with no moral responsibility.

Now to the news:

Sri Lanka army is accused of recruiting child soldiers for rebel group:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1534152/Sri-Lanka-army-is-accused-of-recruiting-child-soldiers-for-rebel-group.html

Sri Lankan army shells hit children's hospital:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/srilanka/4429303/Sri-Lankan-army-shells-hit-childrens-hospital.html