COLOMBO — Senior Tiger cadres in military custody feared for their lives after the new head of the defeated guerrilla group was arrested in Malaysia, a pro-rebel website said Saturday. The Tamilnet.com website said Wednesday's dramatic capture of Selvarasa Pathmanathan, better known as K.P., in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur raised "serious concerns about the
world outlook to political justice." Pathmanathan, who took over as head of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) after its military leadership was killed in the final stages of fighting in mid May, had chosen to reorganise the rebel group as a non-violent movement. "Mr Pathmanathan, who denounced violence, was engaged in reorganising the LTTE" and was involved in "the formation of a trans-national body for the Eelam Tamils," the website said. Tamilnet said Pathmanathan's "mysterious kidnapping" had raised fears for the safety of hundreds of Tiger leaders in Sri Lankan military custody. "Currently there are fears about the lives of hundreds of senior LTTE leaders," the Tamilnet said. "War criminals and terrorists hide behind the banner of state and the world doesn?t care for a whole nation incarcerated." Government forces have identified nearly 10,000 Tamil rebels among some 300,000 civilians who escaped the final stages of fighting between troops and Tamil Tigers in the island's north. Sri Lanka has promised to establish an ambitious rehabilitation programme for rebels in custody and has already set up two centres to provide them with vocational training.
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world outlook to political justice." Pathmanathan, who took over as head of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) after its military leadership was killed in the final stages of fighting in mid May, had chosen to reorganise the rebel group as a non-violent movement. "Mr Pathmanathan, who denounced violence, was engaged in reorganising the LTTE" and was involved in "the formation of a trans-national body for the Eelam Tamils," the website said. Tamilnet said Pathmanathan's "mysterious kidnapping" had raised fears for the safety of hundreds of Tiger leaders in Sri Lankan military custody. "Currently there are fears about the lives of hundreds of senior LTTE leaders," the Tamilnet said. "War criminals and terrorists hide behind the banner of state and the world doesn?t care for a whole nation incarcerated." Government forces have identified nearly 10,000 Tamil rebels among some 300,000 civilians who escaped the final stages of fighting between troops and Tamil Tigers in the island's north. Sri Lanka has promised to establish an ambitious rehabilitation programme for rebels in custody and has already set up two centres to provide them with vocational training.For further details visit as : http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5illWvglKXGhRIf5MXSUmhp9poqvg
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