A young displaced Tamil girl looks on as David Miliband and his French counterpart Bernard Kouchner arrive in northern Sri Lanka recently Photo: (AFP: Pedro Ugarte) From The Telegraph:
Child soldiers including girls as young as 11 have been forced to fight on the front line by retreating Tamil Tiger rebels, senior Sri Lankan army officers have claimed.
Division commanders described discovering their enemy included a conscript army of children as they stood on the edge of the 'no fire zone' where 50,000 civilians are believed to be trapped by the once-feared Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elaam (LTTE) making their last stand.
As both sides in the conflict traded claims of war crimes, one army commander spoke of his regret that his men had shot and killed young girls.
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My Comment: A War Crimes investigation and tribunal must be set up to look at this conflict. I doubt that the Sri Lankan Government will do this as soon as the conflict is over, but for closure to happen, the Sri Lankan Government will have to decide one day to establish such a commission.
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