{"id":3981,"date":"2018-09-14T17:06:28","date_gmt":"2018-09-14T17:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=3981"},"modified":"2018-09-14T17:07:03","modified_gmt":"2018-09-14T17:07:03","slug":"poonthottam-rehabilitation-centre-to-be-closed-in-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/poonthottam-rehabilitation-centre-to-be-closed-in-november\/","title":{"rendered":"Poonthottam Rehabilitation Centre to be closed in November"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Government is to close the Poonthottam Rehabilitation Centre in Vavuniya in November.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">At present there are only three people undergoing rehabilitation and they are expected to complete the rehabilitation programme by 29th November 2018.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Sri Lanka\u2019s Permanent Representative to Geneva, Ambassador A. L. A. Azeez told the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), the Poonthottam Rehabilitation Centre will be winding up in November.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">He said that after November 2018 the Poonthottam Rehabilitation Centre will serve as a Vocational Training Centre.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cIt will help provide vocational training for ex-combatants to enhance their living standards with new employment opportunities,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Poonthottam Rehabilitation Centre was established by the former Government after the war to rehabilitate former LTTE cadres.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Government is to close the Poonthottam Rehabilitation Centre in Vavuniya in November. At&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-srilankan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}