The government has released all persons in IDP camps over 60 years in age while turning 40,000 IDP children as students.
President Mahinda Rajapaksa made these observations on Sunday at a meeting in Mahiyangana, in the Uva Province adding that at least 80 per cent of IDPs would be resttled prior to the deadline set.
The President said his government has given a new life to LTTE child soldiers by rehabilitating them in vocations of their choice at rehabilitation camps.
Speaking further the President pointed out that the LTTE denied education to young children in the North and East by recruiting them as combatants to fight a useless war.
He recalled that when the children in the South studied, the LTTE made the young in the North carry T-56 weapons on their shoulders and arms.
He called upon the support of the people to rebuild the nation as the LTTE had been fully crushed to restore peace and normalcy.
Courtesy : Government Information Department