Thousands of Tigers 'won't be freed soon'

Thousands of Tamil Tiger suspects in government custody will not be released soon, a Sri Lankan minister has said.
Power and Energy Minister WDJ Seneviratne said there were a "considerable number of suicide bombers" among the 14,000 detainees.
A military spokesman said there were fewer than 12,000 suspects in custody.
In May, Sri Lanka's army defeated Tamil Tiger rebels who had been fighting for a separate homeland for the country's Tamil minority for 26 years.
Speaking to journalists in Ratnapura, Sabaragamuwa province, Seneviratne said some 14,000 suspected members of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, or LTTE, are being held in various detention centres.
"These people are not somebody we can release soon, because some of them are suspected to be connected to very serious incidents," he said.
He added that "a considerable number of suicide bombers" are among the detained.
However, military spokesman Brig Udaya Nanayakkara told the BBC's Sinhala service that just over 11,000 LTTE suspects are in custody, following the release of 712 former LTTE combatants on Saturday.