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Govt to release 107 rehabilitated LTTE cadres
Sep 08, 201311:41 PM
The government will release another batch of 107 rehabilitated LTTE cadres on Monday, leaving only 232 former Tamil rebels to be reintegrated into the society.
The Army’s top rehabilitation official said today the 107 former Tamil Tigers would to be released tomorrow in the northern town of Vavuniya.
“They are to be released after a successful programme of vocational training,” said Maj Gen Jagath Wijethilake.
Wijethilake said out of the 11,631 former LTTE cadres who had been through rehabilitation only around 232 would be left after tomorrow’s release.
They were provided with life skills and languages training during their rehabilitation programme, he was quoted as saying by PTI.
They surrendered to the army at the end of the nearly three decades long ethnic war in May, 2009.
The government in January this year announced the allocation of 500 million rupees to grant self-employment loans to the rehabilitated LTTE cadres.
A state bank provides self-employment loans up to 250,000 rupees each to 10375 of them.
