The government is recruiting more Tamils to the police, armed forces and prisons department said Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe yesterday in parliament.
Responding to a question raised by leader of the EPDP, Douglas Devananda, Mr Wickremasinghe noted that Tamils had historically been in the police force but issues arose after 1978. He blamed the reduction of Tamils in the police force and armed forces on the 1983 riots and the LTTE.
Wickremasingle claimed that 151 Tamil speakers from the Northern Province and 57 from the Eastern Province were recently recruited into the police forces, and that the government intends to have at least two Tamil-speaking constables in every police station.