"We meet today to launch an important campaign, one of the most important campaigns for the future of our society। There are many who would say that this should have been launched earlier। But, even at this late stage this is something we owe to our children, who will be our future, and for whom we must be ready to make the biggest sacrifices
Today we launch the Sri Lanka National Campaign Against the Recruitment of Children for Use in Armed Conflict. The image of Sri Lanka, for far too long, has been stained by the presence of Child Soldiers in our country. We have been disgraced by being banded with other countries where this dreadful practice exists, and it is time for us to erase that stain on our country and nation. A stain that has not come through official policy, but through the acts of those who use terror against the state.
But, more important than erasing the stain in our image, is the need to save our children from this special horror of terror, the most savage of the chosen weapons of terror, that has been the menace of our society for nearly three decades। "
..............www.defence.lk
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