Summary
A FORMER Tamil Tiger child soldier has given a shocking insight into the abuses perpetrated by separatist rebels, revealing how he was taken by Tamil fighters to a terror training camp at the age of 12, forced to undergo a gruelling daily 17-hour training regime and brainwashed into becoming a suicide bomber.
In an extraordinary and unprecedented interview with Mail on Sunday special correspondent Edna Fernandes, Thayalan, now 17, admitted: 'I was ready to kill by the time training was finished.' And it was only when he got his O-level results - including six As and two Bs - that he decided to do something positive with his life and defected from the suicide squad.See the full content of this document
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The Tamil Tigers Taught Me to Be a Suicide Bomber. Then I Got My O- Levels and Decided I Didn't Want to Die [Edition 4]
Thayalan's revelations shed light on the tactics of the rebel group that pioneered the use of the sui...
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