{"id":68281,"date":"2017-07-27T16:04:20","date_gmt":"2017-07-27T23:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=68281"},"modified":"2017-07-27T16:04:20","modified_gmt":"2017-07-27T23:04:20","slug":"former-ltte-cadre-sentenced-to-life-imprisonment-for-abducting-and-recruiting-children-to-fight-during-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/07\/27\/former-ltte-cadre-sentenced-to-life-imprisonment-for-abducting-and-recruiting-children-to-fight-during-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Former LTTE cadre sentenced to life imprisonment for abducting and recruiting children to fight during war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"JUSTIFY\">Vavuniya High Court on July 26 sentenced K. Dasan, a former cadre of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.satp.org\/satporgtp\/countries\/shrilanka\/terroristoutfits\/LTTE.HTM\">LTTE<\/a>) for abducting and recruiting children to fight during the war, to life imprisonment, reports\u00a0<i>Colombo Page<\/i>. In 2008, complaints have been lodged with the Police that the suspect had abducted children on several occasions. However, the Police at the time were not able to arrest him since he was with the terrorist organization. After the end of the war, the suspect has surrendered to the security forces and was rehabilitated. Following his return to his home in Kilinochchi, the Police had taken him into custody on a complaint made by his family and produced him in court for trial.<\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\">Meanwhile, the European Court of Justice in Brussels on July 26 removed LTTE from its terrorism blacklist, reports\u00a0<i>Colombo Page<\/i>. In 2006, the Council of the European Union placed on the list the LTTE, a movement which opposed the Government of Sri Lanka in a violent confrontation that resulted in the LTTE&#8217;s defeat in 2009. The Council has maintained the LTTE on the list ever since. By the judgment the Court of Justice reaffirming its case-law, said the European Union had not provided any evidence showing that the LTTE was a risk after their military defeat in 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vavuniya High Court on July 26 sentenced K. Dasan, a former cadre of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) for abducting and recruiting children to fight during the war, to life imprisonment, reports\u00a0Colombo Page. In 2008, complaints have been lodged with the Police that the suspect had abducted children on several occasions. However, the Police [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68281","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=68281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}