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UN votes to monitor child soldiers, abuses in war
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Victor
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28 Jul 2005 12:28:22 GMT Report for Abuse
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Dear Kural, I am sad that you speak for all Tamils. Moreover you are inciting violence..... No body.... should it be Tamil or Sinhalese should resume war.
Tamils were forced to war by driven to the edge of their patience of oppression by the sinhalese govt in power since independence... Not by Sinhala people themselfs. Even today they live together. However I must admit that Sinhalese people are showing hatred and oppresion to tamils. Its for various reasons, one has to undertake reasearch to know it all.
In fact the Tamils had contributed to SL economy more than any in Sri Lanka with the Foreign exchange flowing in from expat tamils. Many Sinhalese have even moved out of Colombo renting out their properties for big bucks to tamils. This is thriving business in SL.
If there is war, may be the LTTE may win the war, but please think about the blood shed.... destruction through out Sri lanka. Its not required my friend. |
saintclair
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28 Jul 2005 13:15:37 GMT Report for Abuse
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Dera Mr.Piranha,
Ananda Sangree is a worthless man shouting here in Sri Lanka and there in India. He doesn't have proper word and trying work agains his own Tamils. what a wonderful traitor:! this man.
So there is no use of mentioning his name on this forum and these are the people who should have given up their political life long ago.
He is a big traitor indeed. |
sk63
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28 Jul 2005 13:35:06 GMT Report for Abuse
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Dear Victor,
I am not denying the abuse of children in the South. Abuse has a very wide meaning. Employing under age children which is common in both North and South is abuse. Severe physical punishment to children in school is also abuse. So is the case if parents punish children physically (by the Western standards). Bullying in schools, abandonment of children are all cases of abuse. Employing children as sex workers is abuse. Agreed.
What I dont agree is your claim about recruitment of underage children to the Army. There is no case, absolutely none, of recruiting underage children to the army. I am arguing with you ONLY on that count and nothing else. You suggest that I do some research on the topic, I have been there and so I know, we don?t recruit underage children. I have visited North East and South. Met thousands of young servicemen and they are not underage. So if you have evidence Victor, I beg you to give us that evidence. But as far as I know, apart from false propaganda by media sympathetic to all sorts of causes every now and again accusing SL forces having recruited children but with no hard evidence.
I agree these suddahs are here not because they love us. But let us face it, if there is any child recruitment by the Army, they would raise hell.
Victor, I am sorry but your allegation about underage recruitment to the Army is not accurate. My disagreement is ONLY on your allegation that the forces forge documents and get children to join. That is baseless and callous. As for the rest of the post, I have no disagreements. |
sk63
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28 Jul 2005 19:54:58 GMT Report for Abuse
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Dear Victor,
Please take a look at the following website:
www.child-soldiers.org
This is not a GOSL funded organization, but a credible international NGO. Read their report for 2004. I have cut and pasted that link too. The report clearly says there is no forced or compulsory conscription to SL forces. It also says that SL minimum age to join the Army is 187. The report has not identified a single case of SL govt. forces having child soldiers!
http://www.child-soldiers.org/document_get.php?id=878 |
Pera
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29 Jul 2005 02:07:09 GMT Report for Abuse
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Gentlemen,
IRA has given up arms. Who's next??
Your guess is good as mine.
Cheers |
Poet
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30 Jul 2005 06:00:02 GMT Report for Abuse
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The U.N. Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution on Tuesday to monitor nations or rebel groups that kill, maim and sexually abuse children in war zones or recruit them as soldiers. _ News
THIS RESOLUTION IS A DOUBLE EDGED SWORD
In a major ground-breaking development, the UN Security Council voted last Tuesday unanimously for a series of measures, including the establishment of a comprehensive monitoring and reporting mechanism, to ensure the protection of children exposed to armed conflicts.
The mechanism will monitor grave violations by all parties, both governments and insurgents, focusing particularly on: Killing or maiming of children, recruiting or using child soldiers, attacks against schools or hospitals, rape or other sexual violence against children, abduction of children and denial of humanitarian access for children.
http://www.dailynews.lk/
As I mentioned earlier this UN resolution is a double edged sward. In case of full-fledged war, this will create more constrain to the government than LTTE. In future war government cannot enforce blockade of food, medicine and other essential items to the guerrilla controlled areas or in the theatre of war. Indiscriminate bombing and shelling is become an inevitable part of the Government strategy. This also become difficult in future. Fighting LTTE in this background is impossible for the government forces with the available men and material.
According LTTE related institutions future war will take place mostly in the Sinhalese areas. According them when ever Government destroy a target in North East, in retaliation LTTE also will bomb equal amount of buildings and resources in South. In this type of war LTTE can be more selective and get upper hand because of its better ground knowledge about South. Sri Lankan pilots are not getting enough briefing on the ground situation and less prepared to penetrate into LTTE areas. In many occasion they just dumped the bombed on buildings such as schools (Nagarkovil) churches (Navali) and hospitals situating closed to costal areas. This one way demoralize the civilian as expected by the enemy. But it also push people and children to wards LTTE and strengthening it.
Government is not in a position to conduct a war in a selective manner in the North East. On the other hand LTTE can conduct a war in South in a selective manner with far less human resources.
The UN resolution is definitely a double edged sword. |
tigeress19
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30 Jul 2005 09:54:28 GMT Report for Abuse
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Dear poet
i understand the phrase 'double edged sward' .the new resoulution is to put pressure on government and freedom fighters.
the world do not want any terrorist and at the same time they dont allow any governments to create any terorrist groups.
the ones already existing should negociate with the governments and find a soulution to the problems.
usa will not deal with freedom fighters because of it policies instead norway will deal with freedom fighters like they have done in the past.
norway and uk are the front line defence of the usa and its policies.
for example when the CFA initiated between the gosl and ltte, the uk,norway and india came forward with the soulutions.
ltte rejected india.
gosl rejected the uk
so norway is the one took over the possition.so it is a tremendous pressure on gosl to accept norway as the fascilitator.
norways policy based on 'give to take'.
there is lots of people(sinhala)woundering why the gosl cannot chase the norweigians to their home.
UNFORTUNATLY THE GOSL CANNOT DO THAT.
thank you |
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