Defence Secretary tells rehabilitated youth:

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Defence Secretary tells rehabilitated youth:
Get involved in development programs
Sandasen MARASINGHE
Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa said the North and East are developing at an unprecedented speed and the rehabilitated youth with a vocational training can directly get involved in the development programs.
Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa
The Defence Secretary made this observation at a ceremony held to issue certificates to rehabilitated ex-LTTE combatants who completed their vocational training courses at Protective Accommodation and Rehabilitation Centre at Senapura in Welikanda.
Thirty rehabilitated ex-LTTE combatants received certificates from Defence Secretary Rajapaksa after completion their courses as plumbermen, carpenters, masons, electricians and back hoe and Buldozer operators. So far 595 persons are being trained at this centre and 233 persons have been handed back to their families to lead a normal life.
The Defence Secretary told the certificate recipients, other ex-LTTE combatants at the centre that these misled youth should involve in the massive development program undertaken by the government in the North and East. He said the main objective of rehabilitation is to provide youth with an opportunity to earn their living by themselves when they join society.
“They should learn that there is a better world beyond waging war,” the Defence Secretary said.
The Government will develop infrastructure facilities, education, agriculture, livestock industry in these areas and the responsibility of rehabilitated youth was to involve themselves actively in this program. Rehabilitation Director General Brigadier Sudantha Ranasinghe also spoke.
Chief of Defence Staff and Airforce Commander Air Chief Marshal Roshan Goonetileke, Navy Commander Vice Admiral Thisara Samarasinghe, Army Commander Lieutenant General Jagath Jayasooriya, Acting IGP Senior DIG NK Ilangakoon and Eastern Commander Major General Susil Udamalgala also participated.