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Tuesday, May 26, 2009
4:48 PM
If Tamil child soldiers do need rehabilitation, the last people who should give it to them are the soldiers who just crushed the rebellion. Handing over these children to soldiers who just waged a vicious war to suppress a violent revolt is, on its face, giving them as prizes of war to be brutalized.
This is one of those things that is so shocking that we don't want to think about it. Well, it is way over there, and besides, what can we do? Well, what can we do? All the arm waving in the world may not help. But what is the alternative? Drop bombs on Columbo and widen the conflict? That certainly would not go well with India.
Well, saying something is a start. Visit The Government of Sri Lanka and find a way to communicate, call your local representative and senator, or donate or volunteer to an aid organization. But will that really help? Pray? What fixes this? What saves those kids?
I am at a loss, and sad for them, but I honestly don't know what to do about it. There's nothing positive to do, in the end, but pray that people in the Sri Lankan government and military will do the right thing. Maybe that's not likely. Maybe that's not the way the world is "supposed" to happen. But it's possible.
sri lanka's tamil children
Following the brutal termination of Sri Lanka's civil war, many children of 200,000+ Tamil refugees have been taken from the concentration camps by the military and/or paramilitary groups to secret "re-education" camps without access by anyone - their parents, the Red Cross, or the U.N.If Tamil child soldiers do need rehabilitation, the last people who should give it to them are the soldiers who just crushed the rebellion. Handing over these children to soldiers who just waged a vicious war to suppress a violent revolt is, on its face, giving them as prizes of war to be brutalized.
This is one of those things that is so shocking that we don't want to think about it. Well, it is way over there, and besides, what can we do? Well, what can we do? All the arm waving in the world may not help. But what is the alternative? Drop bombs on Columbo and widen the conflict? That certainly would not go well with India.
Well, saying something is a start. Visit The Government of Sri Lanka and find a way to communicate, call your local representative and senator, or donate or volunteer to an aid organization. But will that really help? Pray? What fixes this? What saves those kids?
I am at a loss, and sad for them, but I honestly don't know what to do about it. There's nothing positive to do, in the end, but pray that people in the Sri Lankan government and military will do the right thing. Maybe that's not likely. Maybe that's not the way the world is "supposed" to happen. But it's possible.
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