Sri Lanka north assembly calls for release of Tamil detainees

Sri Lanka's Northern Provincial Council today unanimously adopted a resolution calling for urgent action for the release of Tamil political prisoners.
The resolution was adopted unanimously to this effect, said Council's Chairman CVK Sivagnanam.
The Northern Provincial Council is controlled by the Tamil National Alliance (TNA), an amalgam of five Tamil parties.
According to the resolution, some of the Tamil political prisoners have spent between 8-15 years in jail and are continued to be held without charges.
Some of them, detained for suspected links with the LTTE, have not been charged even though five years have lapsed since the rebel group was defeated in 2009, the resolution notes.

The Sri Lankan government claims that over 11,000 LTTE cadres detained during the war have been rehabilitated and reintegrated to the society.
More than 100,000 people were killed on both sides of Sri Lanka's nearly-three decade war between minority Tamils and troops from the Sinhalese majority government.
Both sides were accused of widespread atrocities during the fighting.