Colombo, Aug 11 (Xinhua) The Sri Lankan government has said the displaced people living at the relief camps in the country's north would be allowed to leave only when the members of the defeated Tamil Tiger rebels hiding at these centres are identified.

The attorney general in a written submission to the Supreme Court said Monday the officials are in the process of identifying the members of former rebel group Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).

The official told the court that the displaced people would be released from the camps only after the rebels are identified.

His submissions came in response to a complaint filed by the Centre for Policy Alternatives, a rights group, urging the release of displaced people from the relief camps run by the government in the northern districts of Jaffna and Vavuniya.