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Govt.
attacks prevent schooling in N&E
The
LTTE Peace Secretariat, in its website, said that a total of 217
schools in the two provinces, were either closed, damaged or came
under High Security Zones (HSZ), thus depriving 43, 854 children
of attending school. “A
total of 4,110 children were deprived of attending schools as their
schools were declared within HSZs, while another 18, 959 children
have been deprived of going to school as some 73 schools were damaged
owing to attacks launched by security personnel, another 126 schools
were closed for numerous reasons depriving 20,785 children of attending
school in the Northern and Eastern provinces,” the LTTE said.
“During the three decades of attacks on Tamil civilian institutions, schools have borne the brunt. The number of schools destroyed and displaced by such attacks over the three decades would be close to 1000,” the LTTE said.
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