Former LTTE cadre and Vivek Oberoi, at a mass wedding in Vavuniya.
16 former LTTE cadres will represent Sri Lanka at next year’s South Asian Games. That’s great news and should make everyone in Sri Lanka very proud. “We found 16 former Tamil Tiger rebels who could be trained to come up to national level standard and represent the country,” Abeykoon told AFP. “We have got four for rifle shooting, four for swimming, four for softball and the other four for athletics. They were undergoing government-sponsored rehabilitation when we picked them” (Hindustan Times).
This is in marked contrast to the Tamil Eelam football team, playing in a tournament for stateless nations under the LTTE flag. While that’s backwards and divisive, these athletes are representing a uniting country. Good luck to them, and us.
I wonder how safe this step is…
Or whether India will actually let them into the country.
Why? I think this is a really positive thing.
You won’t hear Gripeviews and Sanjana Hattotuwa and the NGO crowd speaking positively about this though.
well…they haven’t really gone thru pakiasothy’s screening process
What do they do after that?
Can they make a living from these sports?
They can do what the Sri Lankan handball team did in Germany?
What did they do, leg it?
Sri Lankan handball team “disappeared” in Germany. The film “machan” was based on that incident.
I guess the the ex-ltte supports-man/woman will live like others sportsman/woman do.
They will be sponsored by government or private institutes.