Sri Lankan Rehabilitation and Prisons Reforms Minister D. E. W. Gunasekera has assured hardcore LTTE cadres that the government will not detain them indefinitely.A local newspaper reported that Minister Gunasekera had met nearly 900 male LTTE cadres last week comprising erstwhile members of various fighting units such as intelligence and suicide cadres at a school in Omanthai. The meeting came days after the International Commission of Jurists – ICJ – charging Sri Lanka of failing to adhere to international law in detaining suspected LTTE cadres.The ICJ alleged the detention of nearly 8,000 LTTE suspects for months without a trial was perhaps the largest mass detention in the world. It requested Sri Lanka's donors and the UN to urge Colombo to improve its human rights situation. According to the minister, as many as 2,000 detainees could be released within the next two months. Commissioner General of Rehabilitation Brigadier Sudantha Ranasinghe has been quoted saying that of the 11,696 detainees held at the conclusion of the war in May last year, only 7,001 now remained in his care. He said that over 4,000 LTTE cadres had been released in batches following rehabilitation.