IDPs rehabilitated to fit in society

Ishara MUDUGAMUWA

The Government has taken steps to rehabilitate the people who live in IDP villages of the North and more than 10,000 people among them had been engaged in terrorist activities. The rehabilitation of former terrorist cadres was under the purview of President Mahinda Rajapaksa but now it had been brought under the Justice Minister.

R.M.Daya Ratnayake has been appointed as the Rehabilitation Director General. He said young people who were former terrorist cadres including 455 child soldiers will be rehabilitated and given the opportunity to study and sit examinations.

There are about 15,000 to 20,000 such persons who had been screened and questioned by the authorities. work is progressing to rehabilite more IDPs to fit in as agricultural workers, or in vocations they like to work or even as teachers if they were competent.