US Rights Group confirms Sri Lanka Govt's Complicit in crime,State collusion in child recruitment
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A leading US human-rights group says Sri Lanka's government is ignoring
a militant group's use of child soldiers and forced conscripts in
battles against Tamils.Human Rights Watch says it has conducted
interviews with parents who say they have seen Karuna militants take
their children, and they have also seen armed children at Karuna camps,
which are near Sri Lankan military camps. This is very close to the
combat areas, so there are military checkpoints all over this area,
plus a police presence. And it is impossible for the Karuna group to
have done this without government awareness, and in fact, complicity,"
she said.
In November last year, U.N. special advisor on Sri Lanka, Allan Rock,
said government forces were aware of, and at times involved in, child
abductions by Karuna militants. The Sri Lankan government says it is
investigating the reports.
Human Rights Watch says it hopes the issue of child soldiers will be
addressed when the United Nations discusses the secretary-general's
report on the Sri Lanka conflict on February 9.
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