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Tigers accuse army of fresh attack in Sri Lanka
[ AFP ] [ 12:34 GMT, Mar. 12, 2006 ]
Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels have accused government forces of launching a fresh attack against them and breaking an agreement last month to halt violence. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) said about 30 security personnel and paramilitary soldiers attacked their post at Kaddumurippu on Friday night. "The LTTE counter-attacked and the Sri Lanka army and paramilitaries were forced to retreat, abandoning their weapons. Subsequently the LTTE retrieved these weapons," the Tigers said in a statement on Sunday. There was no immediate reaction from the defence ministry which has routinely denied that it was supporting any "paramilitary" units to stage attacks against the Tigers.
UNICEF and Underage Recruitment
[ Illangai Thamizh Sangam ] [ 18:19 GMT, Mar. 12, 2006 ]
Now the whole Tamil diaspora and the UN can have a full discussion on the actual facts, fiction and the law on the issue of Geneva Convention Article 77, the Optional Protocol of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and childrens' rights. As the UN, UNICEF, the ICRC and the US are very well aware, only the Geneva Conventions are international law, and the rest are wishful thinking for the future. Shown the past good will of the LTTE towards UNICEF on the issue of underage children as combatants, if the UN and the International Community mandate the Optional Protocol as international law, I am certain LTTE would agree to cooperate with such laws. However, it also should be common courtesy for the UN to provide observer status to the LTTE.
[ AFP ] [ 12:34 GMT, Mar. 12, 2006 ]
Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels have accused government forces of launching a fresh attack against them and breaking an agreement last month to halt violence. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) said about 30 security personnel and paramilitary soldiers attacked their post at Kaddumurippu on Friday night. "The LTTE counter-attacked and the Sri Lanka army and paramilitaries were forced to retreat, abandoning their weapons. Subsequently the LTTE retrieved these weapons," the Tigers said in a statement on Sunday. There was no immediate reaction from the defence ministry which has routinely denied that it was supporting any "paramilitary" units to stage attacks against the Tigers.
UNICEF and Underage Recruitment
[ Illangai Thamizh Sangam ] [ 18:19 GMT, Mar. 12, 2006 ]
Now the whole Tamil diaspora and the UN can have a full discussion on the actual facts, fiction and the law on the issue of Geneva Convention Article 77, the Optional Protocol of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and childrens' rights. As the UN, UNICEF, the ICRC and the US are very well aware, only the Geneva Conventions are international law, and the rest are wishful thinking for the future. Shown the past good will of the LTTE towards UNICEF on the issue of underage children as combatants, if the UN and the International Community mandate the Optional Protocol as international law, I am certain LTTE would agree to cooperate with such laws. However, it also should be common courtesy for the UN to provide observer status to the LTTE.