Sri Lanka Tigers reject UN charges over child soldiers

COLOMBO (AFP) - Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels said a United Nations (news - web sites) report saying that the guerrilla movement had recruited more than 4,700 children since 2001 was false.

"We totally reject the accusations levelled against us about recruiting children for war," the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) political wing leader S.P. Thamilselvan said on the Tamil nitharsanam.com website on Friday.

Thamilselvan said the UN should send a representative to discuss the issue with them.