Tamil children swept up as war creates a new monster

Child abductions for military recruitment are not new in Sri Lanka. The Government has long accused the separatist Tamil Tigers - whose assets have been frozen in Australia under UN terrorism laws - of using child soldiers in their bloody campaign for independence. But now the Government is also in the spotlight, with two international reports condemning it for enabling child recruitment by the TMVP's military wing, the Karuna group.

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