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Tamil Tiger rebels in Sri Lanka have been figured in the list of organisations against which the UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has recommended that the UN Security Council impose sanctions when it meets to discuss his annual report on children in otunnu conflict zones. Ramesh Gopalakrishnan of the BBC Tamil Service spoke to Olara Otunnu, UN Special Representative for Children in Armed Conflict, on the implications of the recommendation. Otunnu said that the Tamil Tigers should stop abducting and recruiting child soldiers, immediately come up with an action plan for rehabilitating the child soldiers recruited by them and discuss it with the UNICEF representative in Sri Lanka. Otunnu said it was up to the UN Security Council to decide on Annan’s recommendations of targeted measures, including sanctions, against Tamil Tigers and other organisations in the list. He said this was the second time the Tamil Tigers had figured in the UN list. The UN was concerned that the practice of recruiting has continued despite the ceasefire and despite the Tamil Tigers signing an agreement with the UNICEF in July 2003 to rehabilitate child soldiers. In 2004, the Tamil Tigers had recruited and re-recruited 1,000 children, he pointed out.
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