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Yes I agree after Ranils's CFA ....LTTE has not done any Camp raid and GOSL coolies have become maha weerayas...so let them do little by little camp raids

let us wait and see the results....

sin aney talking without knowing the reality in North and East

Families receive letters from the Tigers with names of members who must join underlined. Most international aid agencies are having to keep some local staff indoors. Some of them have not been able to leave their compounds for months. 'All the NGOs in the area have great concerns towards recruitment policy. We do experience that staff of all the different NGOs are getting abducted or have tremendous pressure towards them because they want to recruit them,' said Arne Bangstad, program manager of Nordic aid agency FORUT.

'We have been promised by the political wing that such recruitment should not take place and that the humanitarian status of the NGOs would be respected. But in practicality, we find that this is not really the case.'

Hats off to u..the way You replied me shows a lot about you nangi
sorry!! let us move on..

A Chaminda is chasing you???

A giant billboard in the town shows a montage of President Mahinda Rajapaksa holding a noose around the neck of a child slain in the grisly massacre of a family in the northwestern district of Mannar last year, which the rebels and military each blame on the other.

'One of my sons is in the LTTE. He joined 63 days ago. He did not join voluntarily,' one elderly man confided, insisting on anonymity. 'His mother is not well. After they took him her sickness got worse. What can I do, even if I get angry?'

Another man says his underage daughter joined to meet the quota so that her elder brother could continue to be her family's main bread winner in a district where 70 percent of the population lives below the poverty line, earning less than a dollar a day.

Apita koheda bool ballo kiuwalau :(
Api kaludath kiyala havvalu!

The United Nations Children's agency UNICEF says the Tigers are still recruiting children despite pledges not to. UNICEF listed 1,591 outstanding cases of underage recruitment by the Tigers at the end of May. One child on its records is aged nine.

'In the present situation, the LTTE want more cadres. We must give some kind of contribution to them,' said 33-year-old clay pot salesman Kaithiravelu Ranjitharajah, tending his stall at Kilinochchi market.

'My sister joined eight years ago. My brother died during the war and is a hero. Both joined voluntarily,' he added, looking at his own 18-month-old son. 'Let the future decide if he will join.'

The United Nations Children's agency UNICEF says the Tigers are still recruiting children despite pledges not to. UNICEF listed 1,591 outstanding cases of underage recruitment by the Tigers at the end of May. One child on its records is aged nine.

'Join with us. Protect our land from the Sinhalese army,' the posters say next to a photograph of a rebel fighter in characteristic Tiger-striped fatigues taking aim with an assault rifle.