Members of the Sri Lankan military organised an event in cooperation with a garment producer to employ Tamils from Kilinochchi in the south of the island.
According to news.lk, troops with the 9 Sri Lanka Engineers (SLE) Regiment under the Security Force Headquarters-Killinochchi, worked with Tri Star Apparels (Pvt) Ltd conducted a series of interviews in May, and selected 58 Tamil youths from the town in the North-East.
The Tamils will be employed in the Ratmalana branch of the company, a town near Colombo.
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