Colombo, Sept 1: Sri Lanka will continue to detain hundreds of terror suspects and outlaw the defeated rebel Tamil Tiger group despite wartime state of emergency laws being lifted, an official said Thursday.
The laws that have curbed civil and political liberties for most of the past 30 years lapsed on Tuesday and the government did not present a motion to renew them.
But President Mahinda Rajapaksa approved four regulations under the powerful Prevention of Terrorism Act that became effective Tuesday, Attorney General Mohan Peiris said.
The first two regulations will continue to proscribe the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam group and the Tamil Rehabilitation Organization, which received donor funds to carry out rehabilitation work in then rebel-controlled areas and was accused of also using them to finance the rebels.
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