Pic courtesy of AlJazeera-In Vanni-Aug2011
Three Tamil youths who had undergone rehabilitation and were to be released last year are yet to reunite with their families and are reportedly missing.
Mano Ganesan leader of Democratic Peoples Front and convenor of Civil Monitoring Commission has writtent to Chandrasiri Gajaderra,minister of Rehabilitation and Prison Reforms on the matter.
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pic courtesy of AlJazeera-Aug 2011
by National Peace Council
The third anniversary of the end of the war will be celebrated in the coming week. In the past two years this has taken place with victory parades and with public commemorations of war heroes by the Government although many people would say it was not appropriate after a civil war when citizens of the country were killed in large numbers.
It is also necessary to remember that the government is being accused of war crimes and violations of humanitarian laws
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