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The LTTE decides who works for the NGOs, and
these aid organisations are persuaded, or
coerced, to do what the LTTE wants. The
families of those who get NGO jobs via the
LTTE, are obliged to provide one or more
teenage or adult men or women for the LTTE
combat units, and these “volunteers” are
expected to be diligent soldiers, or else
their families will suffer, the Strategy
Page military website said yesterday.
“While many of the civilians are all for
more Tamil autonomy in Sri Lanka, they also
find themselves trapped by the LTTE,” the
website said.
All adult Tamils are now subject to
involuntary military service. Most of these
fighters barely know how to operate their
weapons, but the LTTE has found a way to
make them useful even if they are killed.
If some of these fighters are hit by an
air strike or artillery, their weapons are
taken away, and pictures taken to show
“civilians killed by Sri Lankan military.”
Unable to stop the army advance, the LTTE is
trying to manipulate public opinion in
India, and throughout the world, to get the
Sri Lankan government to accept a ceasefire.
They do this by stressing the suffering of
Tamil civilians living in territory
controlled by the LTTE.
These civilians are basically hostages,
with the LTTE threatening to kill anyone who
tries to flee to government territory.
LTTE fighters at the front line have
orders to keep the army out, and Tamil
civilians in.
The LTTE also puts many military
facilities in residential areas. So if the
place get hit with artillery or air power,
there will likely be civilian casualties
that can be used to try and change Indian,
and world, opinion against the Sri Lankans.
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