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| Child Soldiers from east Sri Lanka |
| Tamils are being forced to sacrifice one child per family to the LTTE |
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Chairman, SLMM office in Batticaloa, Heikki Hulkkonen said, the LTTE has told the SLMM that if a child escapes their clutches they will take another family member hostage. As a result, Hulkkonen reiterated that many children who do escape the claws of the Tigers are too afraid to return to their homes and hide instead in relatives houses or turn themselves to the police and military to be sent to rehabilitation homes.
Heikki Hulkkonen, however says a total of 270 children have been abducted by the LTTE after the Tigers signed a ceasefire agreement with the Sri Lankan government last February and the SLMM offices were set up in April 2002. |
| By Frederica Jansz in Batticaloa |
| Sunday Leader - 02nd February, 2003 Volume 9, Issue 29 |
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Terror story of children from the east |