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2007-08-01 Sri Lanka

'One person from each family': Tamil Tigers engaged in 'forced recruitment'

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Posted by Fred 2007-08-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 OK, everybody pick one of your family members to die. I wonder what the desertion rate is.

Posted by gorb 2007-08-01 00:20|| 2007-08-01 00:20|| Front Page Top

#2 A good sign, one would hope, that the enemy is reduced to conscripting unwilling peasants into its ranks.

Posted by gromky 2007-08-01 03:57|| 2007-08-01 03:57|| Front Page Top

#3 g-ky,
We've won several wars by conscripting unwilling 'peasants' into our ranks - Civil War, WWI, WWII, (and Korean War, for practical purposes.)

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2007-08-01 07:46|| 2007-08-01 07:46|| Front Page Top

#4 And the Tamil Tiger brainwashing regimen is effective... the whole "elder brother" thing is quite unsettling..

Posted by John Frum 2007-08-01 08:32|| 2007-08-01 08:32|| Front Page Top

#5 But we trained and paid our conscripts Glenmore. Not just put the whip to em.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2007-08-01 08:38|| 2007-08-01 08:38|| Front Page Top

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