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The United Nations have urged Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tigers to release all children serving in the combat. The call by the UNICEF has come after a 17-year old was found killed in a recent bomb blast. “It was a 17 year-old who had been recruited when he was age 16 and he was killed in an explosion while delivering supplies to a checkpoint,” UNICEF country representative Susanna Van Gripper told the BBC. UNICEF has once again insisted that children should not be exposed to violence under any circumstances. “This is again a reminder that all children need to be released and there shouldn’t be any further recruitment,” she told Swaminathan Natarajan of BBC Tamil Service. At least 1400 children with the LTTE need to be released though the number may be much higher as not every case is reported to them, she added. But the LTTE has continuously denied recruting children. UNICEF has called upon the international community to step up the pressure on the LTTE to live up to the repeated pledges. “But the LTTE leadership has a strong role to pay in this issue,” Van Gripper added. | LOCAL LINKS  Abductions worry S Lanka studentsSandeshaya EXTERNAL LINKS The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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