Allen Rock's report looks like a mere calumniation - Defence Spokesman
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Allen Rock with two key members of Eelam Society
in Waterloo University in Toronto, Canada. |
"Allan Rock in his report to the UN has failed to provide the
much needed credible evidence to prove his allegations against the Security
Forces", Government Defence Affairs Spokesman Minister Keheliya Rambukwella said
yesterday.
"There are inherent weaknesses in his analysis of the subject
and the inquiry procedure he had adopted is not upto internationally accepted
methodologies," the Minister pointed out.
The Minister said Rock, Special UN Representative for Children
and Armed Conflict on Sri Lanka has submitted his report to the UN recently. In
his report, Rock has accused the SL armed forces for abetting child recruitment
trough their links with the LTTE's "Karuna" faction.
However , the Minister said that Rock has based his
allegations against the Security Forces on certain statements he said to have
obtained from certain people and institutions which themselves have again
referred to may other sources. He also expressed his doubts regarding the long
chain of references in Rock's allegations saying that their main source might be
the LTTE leader himself.
Minister Rambukwella also recalled in an earlier report
submitted to UN by Olara Ottunu, Special Rapporteur for Child Soldiers to the
UN, had very clearly stated the fact that the LTTE was recruiting child
soldiers.
The LTTE though made a pact to the international community
that it would release all its child soldiers and cease child recruitment by year
2002, the outfit has been engaged in the heinous war crime since its inception in
early 80s.
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Renowned Photographer Dominic Sansoni is
captured photographing an LTTE child soldier who was on duty at a
public meeting held at Sudumalai Amman Kovil in Jaffna in August
1987. |
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