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Even as the desperate terrorist outfit LTTE intensifies recruitment of children to expand its depleted cadres of foot-soldiers, Tamils around the world have lost their voices.

Eelam Exists
No protests. Not a pipsqueak from the clowns in Tamil Nadu, Sri Lanka, UK or Canada. Only a deafening silence fills the air.

Why is there such silence over LTTE’s child soldiers?

Simple answer, folks. Because there is already an Eelam (Tamil Nation) in the hearts and minds of Tamils everywhere that turns a Nelson’s Eye toward the most heinous atrocities committed by the LTTE but focuses their angst only on the Sinhalas.

That the LTTE terrorists have been recruiting children – and forcibly at that – is hardly anything new. It’s been going on for several years now.

But now with the LTTE suffering crushing defeat after crushing defeat at the hands of the Sri Lankan armed forces lately, the terrorist outfit has expanded its forcible recruitment of children soldiers.

UNICEF Protests
This is what UNICEF’s Representative in Sri Lanka Philippe Duamelle had to say on Tuesday:

We have clear indications that the LTTE has intensified forcible recruitment of civilians and that children as young as 14 years old are now being targeted . These children are facing immediate danger and their lives are at great risk. Their recruitment is intolerable.

UNICEF says it’s documented over 6,000 cases of children recruited by the Continue reading »