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One girl was only 12 years old when she was first raped by Sri Lankan soldiers. One boy was raped by more than 20 soldiers in UN military trucks where he was sodomised or made to perform oral sex. Another boy was raped by over 100 soldiers, 4 per day, starting at the age of 15. Due to the prolonged
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were accused of sexually abusing nine children from 2004 to 2007. In 2016, the Sri Lankan government decided to make a one-time
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