The Northern Provincial Council chairman C V K Sivagnanam criticised the reports that recent violence in the North-East was due to the LTTE regrouping, describing such comments as "malicious" and "unreasonable".
"An unknown power wants to keep this part of the country in tension. There is information that some of the people who are so-called rehabilitated ex-militants are allegedly used as informants and military intelligence agents," Mr Sivagnanam was quoted by Ceylon Today as saying.
"It's possible that those people may have got into such anti-social activities but the blame should not be attributed to all those poor fellows," he said.
"I have met several former LLTE cadres who have come for assistance. They are striving hard to exist and they want to live with their families."
"They are not receiving support from anybody but they are blamed for all criminal activities in the North."
"At Provincial Council and Central Government levels we have failed to assist them. We have failed to reform them because we have no resources. We do not have the resources to assure them of a normal life," he added.
The Sri Lankan police has blamed recent violence against its officers on 'former LTTE cadres'.
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