Cultural lessons to be part of Sri Lanka ex-rebel rehabilitation process
Lessons on culture and traditions of the minority Tamil community are to be part of the curriculum on the rehabilitation process of the ex-Tamil Tigers.
"We will make them understand the rich cultural traditions of the Tamil community during our rehabilitation program", Maj Gen Daya Ratnayake, the Commissioner General of Rehabilitation, said Saturday.
"Tamils are a community with a rich cultural practice but the LTTE (rebels) systematically destroyed it so the younger generation of Tamils are not aware of them", Ratnayake added.
Ratnayake overlooks the operation to provide vocational training to the former members of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) rebels ad re-integration of them to the society.
The government has identified over 10,000 of former rebels for rehabilitation.
This is in addition to another batch of nearly 20,000 rebel suspects among the near 300,000 internally displaced from the rebel held areas now living in welfare camps.