VAVUNIYA, Sri Lanka (AP)– Fifty-three couples of former Tamil Tiger rebels were married Sunday in a colorful mass ceremony at a government camp in northern Sri Lanka with a Bollywood star as witness. Some of the brides and grooms had trained or fought together during the island's quarter-century civil war that ended last year. They are among thousands of rebels who surrendered to the government and are still interned at a rehabilitation camp near the northern town of Vavuniya. Some of the couples had already been living together without being legally married — socially unacceptable in Sri Lanka. Others had only taken a vow at Hindu temples and exchanged flower garlands, according to an ethnic Tamil tradition. Government ministers attended Sunday's ceremony, signing the marriage certificates and giving gifts to the couples. During the ceremony, brides dressed in bright red or yellow saris and with artificial flowers in their hair stood beside grooms in white shirts with sacred ash on their foreheads. Hindu priests chanted prayers and drummers and pipers played.