Three LTTE child soldiers who escaped the LTTE camp in the Thoppigala area surrendered themselves to the security forces this morning, Tuesday the 19th of June.
Defence sources said that two of them are girls of 12 and 14 years of age and the other is a 14 year old boy.
According to the surrenders, they had been forcibly recruited to the LTTE organisation and detained in an LTTE training camp in the Thoppigala area for six months. They further stated they escaped as they had to face severe hardships in the LTTE military training and could not bare the harassments of the LTTE terrorists.
Defence sources further said that the three LTTE child soldiers are suffering from starvation when the time they surrendered to the Polwatte Army camp in Batticaloa.
MCNS says, so far a total of 652 LTTE cadres have surrendered to the security forces from February 2002.
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