This project will directly help a selected group of 300 male & female Ex-LTTE-Child Soldiers who are today living a life of misery, battling to rebuild their lives in Ampara & Batticaloa Districts of Eastern Province of Sri Lanka.These Ex-Child soldiers have totally been ignored by the present & past governments of Sri Lanka and amidst the current economic crisis and political violence prevailing in the country,this situation will never be addressed. The are expected to be provided livelihood.
Abducting, threatening, and violently recruiting children as soldiers by The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam (LTTE, or Tamil Tigers) to fight in the civil war that occurred for over three decades and ended in 2009 was a brutal violation of human rights in Sri Lanka. The LTTE used these strategies to prevent peace and ruin the future of these children. This was a clear violation of United Nation Convention on the Right of the Child (UNCRC) that could not be derogated from in any national law.
The aim of our activities are to explore the reintegration process of former child soldiers in Eastern and Northern Sri Lanka and understand the factors that influenced their return to civilian life. An extensive literature review has permitted the development of an analytical framework that identified several areas of analysis. At a micro level, the factors of reintegration were analyzed according to three main dimensions: economic, socio-political and psychological wellbeing.
a. General objective (Impact): Objective No. 1: Conduct a pilot study to create a comprehensive Data Portal on former child soldiers and study their current situation including collecting information such as the number of families who became victims of being Child soldiers, the number of children who were forcibly conscripted by the LTTE, and the number of victims who survived from the war and further to gather data and information about the number of the permanently or partially disabled.
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
