March 14, 2007
Tamil Net admits the LTTE turns kidnapped children into suicide bombers
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COMMENTING ON NORWEGIAN FILM ON LTTE FEMALE SUICIDE BOMBERS TAMIL NET ADMITS THEY KIDNAP CHILDREN FOR WAR AND TRAIN THEM AS SUICIDE BOMBERS
The semi-official organ of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam(LTTE), the Tamil Net, admitted that a suicide cadre of their organization, known as a Black Tigress about whom a Norwegian documentary film has been made was a child kidnapped at the age of 12 years.
This is the first time that they publicly admitted that some of the child soldiers they kidnap are turned to be walking bombs, obviously by brainwashing.
Quoting the synopsis of the Norwegian film, that has been made with the consent of the LTTE, the Tamil Net said, “When civil war permeates your childhood, it is impossible to escape. At 12, she disappears from her mother, falling into the hands of the guerrilla,” describe the producers in film synopsis. Taking a child without the consent of the parents is kidnapping.
Commentators said the synopsis itself somewhat justifies the kidnapping of children for the war, a practice of the LTTE, that has been universally condemned by all human rights organizations in the world including the United Nations. All Tamil organizations opposed to the Tamil Tigers have accused the Norwegian government for turning a blind eye to the barbaric practice of kidnapping children for war and imprisoning them in their abominable military barracks subjecting them to child abuse and occasionally sexual abuse by some military trainers. One such supervisor had committed suicide in the Eastern province when a child soldier got pregnant.


Black Tiger
A poster of the Norwegian film and a scene of the documentary
The Tamil Net reported, βFor the first time the Tamil Tigers have allowed a foreign film team to “hand-pick, follow, interview and dig deep,” into the lives and faiths of two female Black Tigers, according to the producers of a documentary film titled “My daughter the terrorist,” which made its World Premiere to a full house at Parkteatret in the Norwegian capital Oslo Monday(March 12).β
Admitting the practice of conscripting child soldiers, the Tamil Net said, Beate Arnestad, the director of the 58 minutes long documentary film, follows two young, Catholic females, with the nom de guerre ‘Dharsika’ and ‘Puhalchudar’, who have been LTTE fighters since their teens and have become part of LTTE’s elite force, the Black Tigers.β
As if a 12 year old girl kidnapped and traumatized by separating from her mother and constantly brainwashed in the vigorous training to become a walking bomb to kill others could speak the truth the director of the film, Arnestad is quoted in the news story as saying, β”I believe that by letting the girls speak, getting to know their thoughts and dreams, we will get closer to understanding both this conflict, and ‘terrorism’ in general, a little better.” The quote has been taken from the website of Snitt Film Production, the production company.
March 21, 2007 at 7:26 pm
TamilNet were merely quoting the description provided by the producers. That’s not ‘admitting’ in any sense of the word.
Also the quoted description seems to imply that the girl ran away from home to join the LTTE, not kidnapped.
March 21, 2007 at 11:34 pm
@Tar Consig
You are just being cynical and your comment is a contradiction in terms.
March 23, 2007 at 5:45 am
Thanks for that well reasoned and well supported reply. I am now convinced that you are correct on all counts. Best of Luck.
March 27, 2007 at 6:51 pm
well, i thought that she run away and joined the ltte because SAF ( Sri Lankan Air Force) dropped bombs over their village and killed her father? hmm? are you really sure about that?
May 16, 2007 at 3:37 am
Tar Consig admits on behalf of LTTE that they recruit chid soldiers. Correct thing to do, if that child came to LTTE, is to hand it over to parents.
Supporting untruth will never bring success in defending it.
June 21, 2007 at 3:58 pm
I would like to get a copy of this before I make a comment.
Anyway is n’t it the prevalence of war that made the children in the north and east an easy prey to a terrorist organisation or at times to the state defence service.
July 23, 2007 at 8:18 am
She may or may not have had valid grounds for joining a criminal enterprise against the state.
The number of excuses and reasons for criminality are perhaps larger than the number of days human beings have been in existence.
The reasons do not matter. When you break the law, you are a criminal. That label comes with serious consequences.
That’s how civilization allows itself to survive. The individual is less important than the whole.
August 6, 2007 at 11:35 am
If u interpret in either way, what becomes crystal clear is the fact that LTTE recruits children. (by abducting them or those who volunteer)
The film has been made with the ltte’s consent which means they admit the veracity of its content as well.
What surprises me is the double standard nature of the countries that know the bitter truth but still encourage these inhumane prctices by allowing the child predators to work freely on their lands.
August 15, 2007 at 5:56 pm
All of you are nitpicking idiots. Every child is looking for food, security and future. When the Govt. denies these to her she would seek a “family” which could provide these. Thereafter what she does depends on her experince generated anger. There are many more like her.I can only pray for them.
So, you nit-wits pull your brains out of your pants and try to understand child psychology.
September 16, 2007 at 10:34 pm
verygood
September 18, 2007 at 10:57 am
Poor Dharmasena - he sounds a very persecuted and angry man who sadly doesn’t know how to communicate politely! It echos the responses of illiterate politicians who have become new-rich power houses with neither human devency or intelligence. My advice to dharmasena: stay away from that buddhist temple he’s been frequenting …!
October 20, 2007 at 12:11 pm
This LTTE is a fucked up organization. In order to fulfill the gready desires of the leaders (Specially Fucking Brabha…), they kill their own tamil people. Children are the future of a country. These rascals don’t understand that they are destroying the future. The world reporters and leaders need to read these news. Because they all constantly blame the Sri Lankan gvt for killings. Fucking Brebha needs to DIE. Someone has to kills that PUSSY MAN
October 23, 2007 at 3:22 pm
if srilankan government is truly loving and caring about tamil children living in north and east part of the country they must immidiately stop the ongoing war and air bombing on innocent civilian daily.rather than dieing without food and education tamil children can fight for their freedom nothing wrong with that.all bulffers please visit tamileelam to see the reality.
October 26, 2007 at 12:01 am
The tamils dont know who are there enimies.Prabakaran is the enimey not for Sinhalese.Uneducated barbarian always asking blood of human.
November 9, 2007 at 1:59 pm
It is regretted that the poor is always get away from the reality of all struggles and the human nature.
we humans are supposed to learn and let others to send the good value of it.
If children are being trained and being sent to the gallos, it implies the tragedy of all offenders and statemen.
Pl help end the strugle with human instinct.
There is nothing in the universe to acquire by suiciding.
The heaven which is forseen by such a barbaric struggle (poor suiciders) and sacrifice will definitely compose of the same country men, with bribes, curruption and injustice.
pl give them a helping hand rather than filming and earning!
November 10, 2007 at 1:27 am
Listen ….If you force tamil civillians to stand beside a LTTE installation to prevent the SLAF from destroying it …guess what will happen to those human beings when the SLAF drops a couple of bombs ……the innocent dies …the US and other developed countries call this …the casualties of war. LTTE seems to remember all the norms of war and the Geneva convention when they are affected ….how about those innocent Sinhala and Muslim people the LTTE butchered? Weren’t they not innocent enough? People, please read both sides …. Every news outlet is biased to some degree. LTTE has to be treated as a TERRORIST ORGANIZATION and not a group that’s fighting for independence. The TERRORISTS have to be killed and erradicated for there to be peace.
November 16, 2007 at 6:34 pm
Oh God all these people are so retarded… the present government is the most sarcastic thing i have ever seen in my life… these uneducated people dont know what to do when they get saw those pretty chairs!! what ever said or done the whole blame has to put on the present government …….
November 18, 2007 at 6:54 pm
It’s really pathetic to say, that innocent children are engaging with war. Whole world condemn such acts. Still LTTE has not realized that they can’t win their Elam. The Tamil regime would have been eradicated from Sri Lankan soil very near future. There are very respectable Tamil communities are living inside the country. But, anybody can see the difficulties and hardness of living in North and East part of the country. We all would appreciate the present government for facilitating the eastern part through Nagena Ira Nawodaya. All the people have rights to live. I’m sure the government of Sri Lanka will hold an election very soon to select the leaders for Pradesiya Sabha in the east. Because of Mahinda Rajapaksha comes from a village far south, and he used to understand the common feelings of poor ppl and different nationalist., we should support him. Today is his birthday, and wish him all success for his work.
November 23, 2007 at 1:32 pm
LTTE has done many damages to our country.as a child i think all the powerful countries must give their backup to SL government to destroy this terrorism
November 28, 2007 at 10:40 pm
Pls See… today blasts
Who pop off unoffending peoples
We wants to end that situation
November 29, 2007 at 8:34 pm
As far as I can see Tamils in Srilanka have to kill Sinhalese and Muslims by all means to establish a homeland for Tamils in the world.
Tamils use all kinds of propaganda to decieve the international community.L.T.T.E is engaged in carrying ouit this strategy. L.T.T.E always claim that SL Government is killing civilians. This is the excuse they use to cause mass massacres.They kill journalists abduct businessman and claim that these are the actions of SL army. As far as I know SL army is one of the most disciplined armies in the world.Their work has to be valued by all peace loving nations around the world.
December 5, 2007 at 5:49 pm
How do I get the movie? It seems impossible to get a hold of.
December 9, 2007 at 3:50 pm
Why does’nt big boss Pribaharan train his children to become suicide bombers. How can a grade 5 drop out send others’ children blast themselves off? It is not the fault of the mongol big boss. It is the fault of Tamil chauvinists who do not have a backbone.
December 30, 2007 at 12:56 am
majority of the people do not know the trouble that Tamil people go through, if this kind of a situ happens to me i am sure i would have my vengeance in any matter against Sinhalese or tamil.
January 21, 2008 at 4:10 pm
why does LTTE killing people like this
therefore our country become very poor i beg all other nations
please help to destroy this terrorism.
January 29, 2008 at 5:29 pm
IOII
February 2, 2008 at 10:40 am
hello everyone please understand tamils are stugling their day to day live in Srilanka. You all living peacefully and enjoying watching tvs & parties. Dont blame anyone. Government of Srilanka is upseting all people and want to come power fool singala people not to relalize to solve proplem without condem tamil people ok.
February 4, 2008 at 9:40 am
Amen to!!
The TERRORISTS have to be killed and exterminate for there to be peace.
February 21, 2008 at 10:02 am
When you want your rights to be protected, then you will understand the struggles that LTTE going through.. Go and Do research on when, where, why itz started.. Who initiated or forced LTTE to fight for their rights.. If equal rights were given and tamil community were protected.. What is the necessary for them to fight?? They are NOT ‘Terrorist”…. They are just independent seekers.. they want their rights back.. They are not forcing childrens to join them.. When your family were brutally killed by someone, will you lay back and sit at home watching tv??
March 8, 2008 at 5:48 am
I said to prbhakaran once, come on boss, if you love people of Eelam so much, why dont you set an example and become a human bomb yourself. be a real leader and lead by action, be brave, show everyone how its done. He said, noooo Thambi, why should I. My kids are having such a nice time in Ireland, and in Mediteranean sun. I want to live so that I could visit them when I get a chance. Let all these useless kids from villages die on our behalf. They are just cannon fodder for us, so that we can enjoy the profits from ganja, gun running, smuggling, and all these money sending to us by our Tamil bretheren in US, canada and Norway and idiots in London. Why should I blow myself my head, when others like ammas are doing it for us………hehehehhehhh.
March 28, 2008 at 10:09 pm
I THINK EVERY TAMILS ARE NOT ENEMIES.BUT SOME PART OF TAMILS BELIEVE AND THEY LIKE LTTE COMING TO POWER.THEY THINK THEIR ONLY SURVIVER IS PRABHAKARAN.BUT THEY SHOWING THEY ARE FRIENDS OF SINHALESE BUT THEY THE ACTUAL THING IS THEY HELP TO LTTE FROM DIRECT OR INDIRECTS METHODS.
ALSO IN OTHER (ONLY A FEW) COUNTRIES BELIEVE PRABHAKARAN IS LIKE A HERO WHO IS GOING TO GIVE FREEDOM TO TAMILS.BUT ACTUAL THING IS TAMILS ARE NOW SLAVES OF PRABHAKARAN AND HIS BABARIENS DAY BY DAY KILLING INNOCENT CHILDREN AND WOMEN NO ONE SAY STOP THAT IDIOT THING .NO FOREIGN GOVERNMENT HAVE A BACK BONE TO SAY IT.
OK NOW WE DON T WANT UR HELP ONLY HELP WE NEED IS DON`T SUPPORT TO ANY TERRORIST ORGANIZATION IT WILL BE A FUTURE PROBLEM TO YOUR COUNTRY(LIKE OSAMA.)
April 2, 2008 at 12:38 pm
Ha…These bloody piribaharan should be viped out in gods name…
May 10, 2008 at 12:10 am
LTTE is now 32 years old. Well experienced and matured and wide spread .Who let this enemy grow to this big and strong?
June 3, 2008 at 12:57 pm
All O/L failers to the LTTE.
Prabhakaran
June 9, 2008 at 4:27 pm
Hmm… as much as i respect everyone’s views, i think people fail to see that wrong is being done on both sides. Both the Sri Lankan govt & the LTTE are in the wrong. Violence is not a solution to anything.
One should not point fingers, criticism does not contribute to progress. We should aim to be a part of the solution instead. The problem here is that neither party LTTE / Sri Lankan govt are willing to accept that they’re both in the wrong.
LTTE kidnap children, the govt/army & thugs connected to politicians commit numerous attrocities towards innocent tamil civilians. A powerpoint has been circulating highlighting this fact… a man being made to watch whilst sinhalese thugs (hired by politicians) rape & stab his wife to death, and hang his 2 children in his own house, and then shooting him.
However i must highlight that it is not the civilians that are the problem, but rather a minority of power seeking excuses for human beings who call themselves politicians.
WE ARE ONE! why can’t people just live together?!!?!?! Sri Lanka is a beautiful country that has the potential to contribute so much to the world! Sri Lanka should be in a much more successful position than it currently is! Just a few decades ago the Singaporean president recognised Sri Lanka as their biggest threat in terms of economic success. But the intolerance of people has lead to the saddening destruction of an ever so beautiful country. It is never too late to revive this! Sri Lanka & it’s people deserve better. Work together, be happy!
July 1, 2008 at 6:12 am
Because of this rascal prabakaran we are in 25 years back from developed nations. we don’t want to continue it anymore pl destroy and wipe out all the LTTE’s from this paradise and give the all the rights to Tamils who are living in north and east. on the other hand i know that all the Tamils in Colombo and other parts of the country except north are having the all rights as Sinhalese. LTTE is doing, killing their own people and destroying countries future.