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Map of Karuna Group Abductions and Camps

I. Summary

Methodology

II. Recommendations

To the Karuna Group (TMVP and its military wing)

To the Government of Sri Lanka

To the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)

To All Donor Governments

To the United Nations Security Council

To All United Nations Member States

III. Background

Abuses Since the 2002 Ceasefire

Karuna’s Break from the LTTE

Escalation of Fighting Since mid-2006

IV. Abductions and Forced Recruitment by the Karuna Group

Abductions in 2006

Patterns of Karuna Group Abductions

Family Contact

Releases and Escapes

Numbers

Inaction by Police

V. Government Complicity and Official Denials

Forces in the East

Denunciation by the UN

Karuna’s Response

Abductions Persist

VI. Accounts of Karuna Group: Abductions and Forced Recruitment

Case 1 — Boy and Young Man in Batticaloa District, May

Case 2 — Eight Boys and Young Men in Batticaloa District, June

Case 3 — Thirteen Boys and Young Men in Batticaloa District, June

Case 4 —Two Cousins in Batticaloa District, June

Case 5 — Fourteen Boys and Young Men in Batticaloa District, September

Case 6 — Two Boys in Batticaloa District, September

Case 7 — Boy in Trincomalee Town, September

Case 8 — Twelve Boys and Young Men in Ampara District, October

Case 9 — Two Boys and a Young Man in Batticaloa District, October

VII. LTTE Recruitment of Children

VIII. UN Security Council Action on Child Recruitment

IX. Legal Standards

International Prohibition of Child Soldier Recruitment

Child Recruitment as a War Crime

Abduction and Forced Recruitment

Sri Lanka’s Anti-Terrorism Laws

Acknowledgements

Appendix I. Letter to President Rajapakse

Appendix II. Letter to TMVP

Appendix III. Letter to LTTE

Appendix IV. Letter from Tamilselvan

Appendix V. Regulations for the Military Division of TMVP

January 2007 Volume 19, No. 1(C)