Forty-Four LTTE Men/Aides Seek Rehabilitation in Jaffna

Forty four detainees, having confessed that they were either connected to LTTE or have directly or indirectly aided and abetted the terrorist cause in the JAFFNA peninsula consented to receive rehabilitation after they reached Security Forces Headquarters, JAFFNA prisons on Tuesday (26).

Those surrendees after formal registration at the Police are to be absorbed into a rehabilitation programme in the peninsula beginning tomorrow (27). They have sought the rehabilitation in writing, according to the military sources.

During January 2007- February 2008, a total of three hundred and seventeen men and women, some of who claimed themselves to be LTTE cadres have turned up at the Sri Lanka Human Rights Commission in JAFFNA and wanted to seek protection saying that they were very much harassed, disgusted with the LTTE or exposed to LTTE conscription attempts.

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