An underaged girl told a reporter of Al Jazeera Television that she was kidnapped while going with her mother to visit her grandmother after cadres of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) attacked her mother.
"I was walking with my mother going to see my grandmother," one of the girls told Al Jazeera. "Then the LTTE attacked my mother and took me away," said one of six girls who said they were forced to fight for the terrorist group at Thoppigala, or Barrons Cap Rock area where the group has just lost four terrorist camps.
Tony Birtley of Al Jazeera Television reported from Sri Lanka's Eastern Province that, "In a police station in eastern Sri Lanka, six seemingly ordinary teenage girls wait to be processed.
Their short hairstyles mark them out as female fighters in the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.
Al Jazeera further reported: "Pushpu, another of the girls, says she was taken three months ago as she tended her parents' vegetable garden. Most of the girls are about 16-years-old. Pushpu is only 14.
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