The ex-cadres have completed the government's rehabilitation program and received vocational training to enable them to find employment or start self-employment, Commissioner General of Rehabilitation Brigadier Dinesh Hettiarachchi said. At the ceremony held to release the 384 cadres Minister of Rehabilitation and Prison Reforms Chandrasiri Gajadheera presented certificates to 105 Ex-LTTE combatants who had successfully followed a training course in masonry sponsored by HOLCIM Lanka Ltd. The highlight of today's releasing ceremony however, was the fashion show staged by the ex-LTTE female combatants at the Ramakrishna Hall in Wellawatte. With today's batch, the government had successfully re-integrated 10,490 ex- LTTE combatants, including 2,170 females into civil society after the end of the war in May 2009. The last remaining group of former LTTE cadres will be released by mid-2012 after providing them the mandatory 12 months training, the government said. The government has released Rs. 300 million to the Ministry of Rehabilitation and Prison Reforms to provide loans up to a maximum of Rs.250,000 to the rehabilitated former LTTE cadres to start their own employment.
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