12:07 BST
Former Tamil female cadres were rounded up for a meeting in Vavuniya by Sri Lankan military personnel on Thursday morning and later released, local sources told Tamil Guardian within the last hour.
Armed military personnel arrived at their houses on Thursday morning and instructed them to come outside before taking them away without providing any explanation, said one of the woman, who was anxious to remain anonymous fearing reprisal.
The group of former cadres were taken by the military to an unknown location where they were given food before being taken back to their homes.
“There is no safety for us here," she said.
The incident follows a spate of arrests of Tamils by the Terrorism Investigation Department (TID), amidst heightened military presence in the North-East with large-scale search operations, and a rising number of arrests.
See also Another Tamil detained by the TID (28 March 2014)
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