Lanka faces challenges in protecting young

“We urge the international community to initiate a process to find ways and means of taking resolute action to arrest the practice of recruitment of children for use in armed conflict. We also call upon the international community to seek ways to assist initiatives taken at national level by countries like mine to rehabilitate and reintegrate children who are released from the clutches of terrorist groups.”

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Yala attack plan to shift attention away from North

Desperate LTTE in diversionary attacks:

The Security Forces believe that groups of Tiger cadres who fled from Kanchikudichchiaru jungle would have entered the this area across the Lahugala National Park in the Ampara border with the Police Special Task Force launching a number of search operations in the jungle patches of the Ampara district in search of the Tiger cadres who fled from Thoppigala.

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