Over 4000 ex-LTTE rebels rehabilitated in Sri Lanka: Report
October 16, 2010 05:21 pm
“We have rehabilitated
over 4,000 former Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) rebels and sent them
back to their families. Six thousand more are to be rehabilitated,” Xinhua
quoted commissioner general of Rehabilitation Brigadier Sudantha Ranasinghe as
saying.
The government has put
them through rehabilitation since then. The latest batch of 498, more than a
half of them women, were released in the northern town of
The released former
rebels have gone through vocational and English language training.
The private sector firms
have shown interest to recruit them -- mostly in the apparel export sector. – ()