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INNOCENCE - Sri Lanka's Child Soldiers
By: duckrabbit
Posted: Feb 20 09
Witnessed: 2060 times
Regions: Sri Lanka
Issues: Child soldiers, Crimes against humanity
Tags: child soldiers, childrens rights, conflict, david white, duckrabbit, Luka-Bloom, Sri- Lanka, violence, war
'The Sri Lankan civil war has long been notorious for the LTTE's recruitment of child soldiers. As the violence intensifies UNICEF is reporting that forcible recruitment of children is on the the increase despite assurances by the LTTE that they would no longer force children to fight. David White was one of the first journalists to travel to the North of the country and take pictures of former child soldiers lucky enough to find their way onto a recovery programme. In this powerful powerful audio slideshow White reflects on the fate of those children'
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