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Credit: Reuters/Dinuka Liyanawatte By Ranga Sirilal COLOMBO | Fri Sep 30, 2011 3:50pm EDT COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka released 1,800 rehabilitated Tamil Tiger fighters on Friday, as part of what it says are efforts to reconcile ethnic differences after a quarter of a century of war. The government argues its attempts to reintegrate separatist Tamil Tigers, who were defeated in May 2009, must be given time to take effect and says it is on guard to block Western moves to push forward a war crimes probe. President Mahinda Rajapaksa presided over the ceremony to release the former Tiger combatants, who have gone through job and language training before being released from government custody. A Western-led push for a war crimes investigation, backed by rights groups and spearheaded mainly by countries with large Sri Lankan Tamil populations such as Canada, gathered steam at the recently concluded U.N. Human Rights Council sessions. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon sent a report he commissioned, highly critical of the government, to the council, meaning member states could take its contents up and potentially force Sri Lanka to submit to a war crimes probe. "Even though we managed to clamp down and defeated several attempts including that of Canada, we know that the threat is not over," said Plantation Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe, who has a special brief to handle the war crimes issue at the UNHRC. At the UNHRC meeting, Canada brought a resolution to suggest that the next session in March should discuss a war crimes report by Sri Lanka's Lessons Learned and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC), due to be presented to Rajapaksa on November 15. 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