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Amnesty International called on the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam [LTTE], to immediately halt recruitment of child soldiers and asked that the children be returned to their families. An Amnesty Press Release last Friday said, “According to international standards and the LTTE's own policy commitments, no children should be recruited, regardless of whether they joined voluntarily or were coerced or forced to do so”. The strongly worded statement said, “Whether recruitment is forced or not, children have no role to play in war.” According to the London-based human rights group, the LTTE had recruited “several hundred” children recently, from rebel held areas in the north and east. Amnesty International had received reports that children as young as fourteen had been among those recruited. Amnesty has also said that they had received reliable reports of the recruitment of children by armed Tamil groups cooperating with the LTTE such as the People's Liberation Organization of Tamil Eelam (PLOTE).
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