The Press Release OSRSG /PRO0804 brought to my notice that you were
visiting the International Criminal Court in The Hague after the
submission of an "amicus curiae" on Thomas Lubanga Dylio, who was
arrested on March 17, 2006 in Kinhasa, for enlisting children under 15
as soldiers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
He, as we know it was a Congolese national leader and alleged founder
and leader of the Union of Patriotes Congolaise (UPC) who was arrested
and transferred to the International Criminal Court as part of
judicial proceedings under the Rome Statute (July 1998) for allegedly
committing war crimes: conscripting and enlisting children under the
age of 15-years and using them to participate actively in hostilities.
Likewise the former President of Liberia, Charles Taylor, was indicted
by the special court of International Criminal Law for recruiting
child soldiers. And so did the United Nations-backed International
Crimes Court in Sierra Leone handed down landmark convictions against
Tamba Brima, Brima Bazzy Kamarea and Santiogie Borbor Kanu for
recruiting and using child soldiers.
I am encouraged by your enthusiasm in bringing these human rights
violators to justice according to International Criminal Law.
But one criminal keeps slipping through your search-net for Human
Rights violators of child abductors and recruiters for his Child
Brigade for the past 10 years, with uncanny sleazy, slimy-ease which
seems a strange phenomenon.
The leader of the Tamil Tigers (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam =96
LTTE),Velupillai Prabhakaran, has got away unpunished for his role in
forcible recruitment of child soldiers, some of them as young as six
years that I am certain weigh slightly more than the weapons he or she
is forced to carry.
*Recalling the FACT* that the Tamil Tiger leader, Velupillai
Prabhakaran selected Basheer Kaka, a Tamil Tiger from Trincomalee to
establish a training base in the State of Pondicherry in India for
recruits under 16, and in early 1984 the nucleus of the Tamil Tiger
Baby Brigade was formed;
*Recalling the FACT* that the Tamil Tigers of Sri Lanka, which has
been crowned as the most ruthless terrorist group in the world, first
recruited children to form part of the Tamil Tiger fighting force as
the Baby Brigade under Commander Justin, a Pondicherry trained Tamil
Tiger when they took on the Indian Peace Keeping Force in 1987;
*Recalling the FACT* that by 1987 the Tamil Tiger child soldiers were
integrated with adult units to fight beside them;
*Recalling the FACT* that the Tamil Tiger child soldiers saw their
first recorded action on November 22, 1990 when they attacked the
Government's Mankulum Army camp;
*Recalling the FACT* that it was the battle for Elephant Pass on July
10, 1991, when an estimated 550 Tamil Tigers were killed and the
majority were child soldiers;
*Recalling the FACT* that the fiercest of all Tamil Tiger-fighting
units was the Leopard Brigade, or Siruthai Puli which was exclusively
of child soldiers whose unswerving loyalty to the Tamil Tiger leader
Velupillai Prabhakaran was well noted. He says go and kill, and they
go and kill;
*Recalling the FACT* that it is the child soldier who is brainwashed
and trained eventually to become a suicide bomber;
*Recalling the FACT* that despite signed pledges given by the Tamil
Tigers to United Nations Special Representative for Children in Armed
Conflict, Olara Otunuu in 1998, that they will stop recruiting
children below the age of 18 years, and yet they have done it in the
scores of hundreds each year ever since;
*Recalling the FACT* that captured Tamil Tiger bunkers by the Armed
Forces recovered stuffed toys and dolls, depicting that the soldiers
were still kids playing with stuffed dolls, when they should really be
playing with friends as pretend Mothers rocking a doll in their arms
singing =96 */Hush-a-bye baby, on the tree top, When the wind blows the
cradle will rock; When the bough breaks the cradle will fall, and Down
will come baby, bough cradle and all;/*
*Recalling the FACT* that in March 2005 the Tamil Tigers launched an
offensive to get the UNICEF expelled from Sri Lanka, following the
strong criticism and condemnation from the United Nations Security
Council for continued recruitment and use of child soldiers;
*Recalling the FACT* that UNICEF had re****ted in 2005 of more than
4700 cases of recruitment and re-recruitment of children by the Tamil
Tigers, by force, abducting children while on their way to school or
during religious festivals;
*Recalling the FACT* that UNICEF is also on record that the Tamil
Tigers recruited 1,600 children from camps set up for people affected
by the December 26, 2004, Tsunami;
*Recalling the FACT*, the Tamil Tiger leaders promised your special
Representative Allan Rock to stop recruiting child soldier by end of
December 2006 and release all the child soldiers by then, and yet were
recruiting with impunity child soldiers through abduction and
intimidating the parents to hand over a child from each family;
*Recalling the FACT* that on January 31, 2008, UNICEF re****ted 1,430
outstanding cases of Tamil Tiger child recruitment;
*Recalling the FACT* that the Tamil Tigers had promised to disband its
baby brigade pursuant to UN Security Council Resolution 1612, more
than a decade ago but there has been little or no progress at all;
It is vile; it is shameful, unpardonable and immoral that you have not
taken the lead to indict the leader of the Tamil Tigers, Velupiullai
Prabhakaran for these Human Rights war crimes as yet at the
International Criminal Court in The Hague.
Why? Is it because he is one of you, a Tamil that you are letting him
go that easily?
Since you stand guilty of this deliberate inaction in the public court
of my eyes, there is a need for an answer and I hope it is
forthcoming.
NORWEGIANS AGAINST TERRORISM EXPOSURES OF NORWEGIAN GOVERNMENT
COLLABORATION WITH TERRORISM TO MASSACRE THIRD WORLD CIVILIANS
http://www.svik.org/ltte.htm
THE CIVILIAN MASSACRES CARRIED OUT BY NORWEGEAN BACEKD TAMIL TIGER
TERRORISTS
http://www.spur.asn.au/LTTE_Atrocities_20060615_Kebithigollewa_Massacre.htm
http://www.spur.asn.au/LTTE_Atrocities_20070528_Ratmalana_Bomb.htm
http://www.spur.asn.au/LTTE_atrocities_20060529_Welikanda_Massacre.htm
http://www.spur.asn.au/LTTE_Suicide_Bomb_Blast_20071127_Nugegoda.htm
ETHNIC CLEANSING CARRIED OUT BY NORWEGIAN MINISTER ERIK SOLHEIM'S
TAMIL TERRORIST BOYS
http://www.spur.asn.au/ethnic_cleansing_in_sri_lanka.htm
http://www.spur.asn.au/chronology_of_suicide_bomb_attacks_by_Tamil_Tigers_in=
_sri_Lanka.htm
http://www.spur.asn.au/After_signing_the_so-called_JM.htm
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