The Tamileelam Child Protection Board has urgently requested the parents of children under 17 who had joined the LTTE and yet to be released, to contact it, with the intention of identifying and releasing underage LTTE cadres.
In an announcement published on May 8 in Eezhanaatham, the Tamil daily circulated in LTTE controlled areas, the Board said it had been “expeditiously reuniting children born in 1990 and after with their parents,”
“The Board is acting on the basis of information received from parents and other organizations, and from the data collected by the Board,” it said.
The advertisement called for “all parents who have children born in 1990 and after, and yet to be released from the organization [LTTE], to provide the details of their children” to a contact in Paravippaagnchaan, Kilinochchi, so that they could be identified and released.
“The Tamileelam Child Protection Board has been responsible for the execution of the provisions of the Tamileelam Child Protection Act 2006 which came into force in January 2006,” the announcement states.
“As one of the main functions, the Board identifies under-age recruits, obtains their release, and reunites them with their families,” it added.
The Tamileelam Child Protection Act No. 03 of 2006 outlaws the enlisting of children under 17 years in Armed forces and makes participation of under 18-year olds in armed combat illegal.
The legislation enacted by the Tamileelam Legislature Secretariat, and which became effective on October 15 2006, brings into law measures to protect the rights and well-being of children from inception through to adolescence.
The Act, containing 83 sections, makes education compulsory up to grade 11, mandates registration of all births, outlaws enlisting of children under 17 years in armed forces, makes participation of under 18-year olds in armed combat illegal, and proscribes all forms of child labour.
In an announcement published on May 8 in Eezhanaatham, the Tamil daily circulated in LTTE controlled areas, the Board said it had been “expeditiously reuniting children born in 1990 and after with their parents,”
“The Board is acting on the basis of information received from parents and other organizations, and from the data collected by the Board,” it said.
The advertisement called for “all parents who have children born in 1990 and after, and yet to be released from the organization [LTTE], to provide the details of their children” to a contact in Paravippaagnchaan, Kilinochchi, so that they could be identified and released.
“The Tamileelam Child Protection Board has been responsible for the execution of the provisions of the Tamileelam Child Protection Act 2006 which came into force in January 2006,” the announcement states.
“As one of the main functions, the Board identifies under-age recruits, obtains their release, and reunites them with their families,” it added.
The Tamileelam Child Protection Act No. 03 of 2006 outlaws the enlisting of children under 17 years in Armed forces and makes participation of under 18-year olds in armed combat illegal.
The legislation enacted by the Tamileelam Legislature Secretariat, and which became effective on October 15 2006, brings into law measures to protect the rights and well-being of children from inception through to adolescence.
The Act, containing 83 sections, makes education compulsory up to grade 11, mandates registration of all births, outlaws enlisting of children under 17 years in armed forces, makes participation of under 18-year olds in armed combat illegal, and proscribes all forms of child labour.
