{"id":151608,"date":"2025-08-26T17:25:30","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T00:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=151608"},"modified":"2025-08-26T17:25:30","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T00:25:30","slug":"have-you-forgotten-ltte-kidnapped-tamil-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2025\/08\/26\/have-you-forgotten-ltte-kidnapped-tamil-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Have you forgotten &#8211; LTTE kidnapped Tamil children"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Sri Lanka Sovereignty Forum SLSF<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td><strong>Have you forgotten?<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>The LTTE recruited 5,000+ children as fighters. No one knows the exact number.<br>This was genocide of children &#8211; a genocide UNHRC writes reports on but did nothing to stop.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>LTTE stole childhoods, turned innocence into weapons.<br>LTTE supporters overseas did not mind Tamil children being kidnapped.<br>LTTE supporters overseas sent their children to schools &amp; universities but poor &amp; low caste Tamil children were kidnapped &amp; trained in camps.<br>The children who tried to flee &amp; return home were shot or cruelly tortured.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>The Sri Lanka Army rescued them \u2014 disarmed, rehabilitated, returned to families.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Would Geneva have saved them? Or abandoned them?<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><br>Who should Sri Lankans trust \u2014 our Army, or outsiders?&nbsp;<br><br>WE TRUST OUR ARMED FORCES &#8230; their bravery and acts of kindness have never got the appreciation they deserve<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka Sovereignty Forum SLSF Have you forgotten? The LTTE recruited 5,000+ children as fighters. No one knows the exact number.This was genocide of children &#8211; a genocide UNHRC writes reports on but did nothing to stop. LTTE stole childhoods, turned innocence into weapons.LTTE supporters overseas did not mind Tamil children being kidnapped.LTTE supporters overseas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}