Deputy Economic Development Minister Lakshman Yapa Abeywardena has told the BBC that any country in the world would agree that they could not be treated like ordinary criminals.
"The detainees are providing us with information about others who are still at large. The authorities need to keep them for longer to extract more information about the rebel activities and people involved," Abeywardena was quoted by the BBC report.
Meanwhile, former LTTE cadres currently being rehabilitated in the North have reportedly turned up for job interviews in the private sector today (29) at the job fair held in two camps in Vavuniya.
The Sri Lankan government has organized the two-day special job fair for the rehabilitated former LTTE combatants.
The local media stated that they are being interviewed mostly for jobs in factories.
Some 4,000 former LTTE cadres have been released after rehabilitation at the Pompemadu and Nelunkulama camps in Vavuniya. These combatants have been given vocational training to prepare them to earn a living.
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