Govt introduces loan scheme for disabled Sri Lankan soldiers

Sri Lanka's new government introduced this week a special loan scheme for disabled Sri Lankan soldiers via state owned banks.

The 'Viru Daru' scheme, which was presented to parliament on Thursday, has a budget of upto Rs. 500,000, the state news agency reported.

The Sri Lankan military, which stands accused of carrying out mass atrocities against the Tamil people during the final stages of the armed conflict in 2009, as well as ongoing human rights violations of murder, rape, and torture of Tamils, consists
almost entirely of Sinhala personnel.

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