Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the United Nations (UN), Mohan Peiris in his speech at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC)’s Arria Formula Meeting on Children and Armed Conflict held in New York on January 29 said that Sri Lanka rehabilitated all 594 of child soldiers recruited by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) without prosecuting them, reports Daily Mirror. He said the plight of children is worsened by the prolonged effects of poverty, all forms of violence and conflict.