Six LTTE child soldiers surrender - Batticaloa

The surrendered six child soldiers who had fled the LTTE terrorist outfit in Thoppigala.

Despite restless LTTE propaganda to white wash its stunning setbacks experienced in the hands of the SL security forces in the eastern frontier, groups of terrorist combatants are surrendering themselves to SL Army camps located in Batticaloa.

Adding to the numbers, six more LTTE child soldiers surrendered themselves at the Army camp at Siththandi, Batticaloa District. According to the defence sources, the surrenders were between 14 to 17 years of age, and had been forcibly abducted by the LTTE terrorists .

It was quoted according to the statements given by the surrendered child combatants, that they were been abducted by the outfit while they were visiting their relatives and on the way to a Hindu Temple. An underage girl was also abducted by the LTTE while on her way to school.

All the surrendered child soldiers are female, and they had fled the LTTE defences at Thoppigala, the last terrorist hideout in east the defence sources further added. The six child combatants had braved crossing the lagoon and arrived at the Siththandi Army camp.

Many Foreign news agencies have reported that the LTTE terrorists were maintaining a tight lip on the recent revelations made by the fleeing child soldiers.

"The children in their leaning ages are been engaged to fight a war that they do not understand why they are fighting for. Hatred in the only theme thought which is discharged under the oath of Ten Commandments of a tyranny of Pirabakaran, he who has personally resorted to secure the lives of his children with luxuries under the guise of asylum in foreign states", a Tamil intellect who refused to disclose his identity one told defence.lk website.

The LTTE is being banned as a terrorist organisation in U.K, U.S.A, India and many other countries including the 25 nations European Union.

The LTTE is a ruthless terror group who fights for a mono-ethnic separate homeland for the Tamil living in Sri Lanka since 1983. It has been the outfit's strategy since its inception to flush out Singhalese and Muslim people from North and East by bloody ethnic cleansing raids. Thousands of civilians, mostly women and children were perished in the most ruthless massacres during its 20 years of terror campaign.