Child soldier in action on LTTE website

COLOMBO: The LTTE website pathivu.com has published an exclusive picture of an LTTE child soldier holding a submachine gun in its frontline war effort. Pathivu.com is a LTTE front website which publishes exclusive terror pictures on a daily basis.

Whilst international outcry on engaging child soldiers in warfare is reaching momentum, the LTTE is not concerned about international concerns. The photograph is published in the LTTE front website just after the UN conference in Paris on child soldiers this week.

The photograph is also published at the time the United Nations Security Council is about to take up the issue of use of children in warfare in Sri Lanka.

The report presented to the Security Council by the outgoing UN Secretary General Kofi Annan is to be considered at the Security Council meeting in a few days.

The LTTE is heavily dependent on child recruits and recent drive in its Vanni confirms, it has recruited all the children over 12 years for military engagement in the area.