COLOMBO, Aug. 25 (Xinhua) -- Sri Lanka's army commander Lieutenant General Crishanthe De Silva, on Thursday denied claims that former Tamil Tiger rebels who were rehabilitated after the war had been injected with poison.
The commander insisted there was no evidence to back the claims and so the claims were baseless.
A former Tamil Tiger cadre, also known as the LTTE, was reported to have made the allegation that several former LTTE cadres were injected with poison before being released into society after being rehabilitated.
The issue was later discussed at the Northern Provincial Council and Northern Province Chief Minister C V Wigneswaran was to meet Prime Minister Ranul Wickremeinghe to discuss the issue.
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