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Rehabilitating LTTE cadres to spend New Year with families

Ex-LTTE cadres, who are currently being rehabilitated, would be given a chance to celebrate the upcoming Sinhala and Tamil New Year with their families, the Ministry of Prison Reforms and Rehabilitations said. "The authorities will facilitate the proramme on the New Year's day at all rehabilitation centres," Secretary to the Ministry, A. Dissanayake said.

Currently, there are nearly 650 ex-LTTE cadres in four rehabilitation camps, situated in the Vavuniya district and Welikanda and Kandakadu in the Eastern Province, undergoing one year's rehabilitation.

This month nearly 30 chosen inmates, whose conduct has been good, would also be allowed to visit their families under the home visiting programme, Dissanayake said.

He also said that plans were afoot to obtain correctional orders from Courts and engage inmates with minor offences in social services programmes.

"Currently, there are nearly 2,000 such inmates causing heavy congestion in prisons countrywide," Dissanayake said.

Courtesy : The Island