Security forces capture an LTTE child soldier

Exposing yet another instance of exploitation of children by the LTTE, troops operating on the Mannar front captured a female child soldier as she was forcibly deployed by the LTTE to guard their Forward Defences in Alankulam which came under heavy attack from the Army last morning, June 9.

The female child soldier aged 17 years was captured as troops launched a massive assault on five LTTE positions in their defences in Alankulam, North of Giant Tank in the Mannar front.

The female child soldier had revealed that the LTTE had abducted her in 2006 in Kilinochchi while she was returning from a Kovil.

She had been given one and half months weapons training by the LTTE and deployed to defend the Forward Defence Lines along with other terror cadres.

According to her shocking revelation to the troops, the LTTE cadres used to drop them on the Forward Defences after transporting them blindfolded and providing them with three meals, lunch, dinner and breakfast, for the following day.

The captured LTTE child soldier was handed over to the Police and later she will be directed to a child rehabilitation centre, sources further said.