Stop recruiting child soldiers, EU to Tigers
FINLAND: The European Union yesterday told the Liberation
Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) to stop recruiting child soldiers, a
practice it called "deplorable and inhumane".
Finland, which holds the rotating EU Presidency, said that the LTTE
and the Karuna group were violating international law by recruiting
child soldiers.
"The European Union urges the LTTE to immediately cease the
deplorable and inhumane practice of recruiting child soldiers, and
release any children recruited in that manner without delay," the
statement said.
Children were in an increasingly insecure situation in Sri Lanka,
where the recruitment of children to hostilities had continued as had
abductions of children from their families in order to recruit them, the
EU said. |