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1987–1989 JVP Insurrection
The 1987–1989 JVP insurrection, also known as the 1988–1989 revolt or the JVP troubles, was an armed revolt in Sri Lanka, led by the Marxist–Leninist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna, against the Government of Sri Lanka. The 1987–1989 insurrection, like the 1971 JVP insurrection, was unsuccessful. The main phase of the insurrection was a low-intensity conflict that lasted from April 1987 to December 1989. The insurgents led by the JVP resorted to subversion, assassinations, raids, and attacks on military and civilian targets while the Sri Lankan government reacted through counter-insurgency operations to suppress the revolt. Guerrilla forces of the insurrection were led by the military branch of the JVP, the Deshapremi Janatha Viyaparaya. The insurgency reached its peak in 1988 and impacted all Sri Lankan civilians, including those without any political stake in the situation. Attacks on civilians by pro-government guerrillas began after the re-election of president Ranasin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cold War
The Cold War is a term commonly used to refer to a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc. The term '' cold war'' is used because there was no large-scale fighting directly between the two superpowers, but they each supported major regional conflicts known as proxy wars. The conflict was based around the ideological and geopolitical struggle for global influence by these two superpowers, following their temporary alliance and victory against Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan in 1945. Aside from the nuclear arsenal development and conventional military deployment, the struggle for dominance was expressed via indirect means such as psychological warfare, propaganda campaigns, espionage, far-reaching embargoes, rivalry at sports events, and technological competitions such as the Space Race. The Western Bloc was led by the United States as well as a number of other First W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cecil Waidyaratne
General L. D. E. Cecil Waidyaratne, VSV, USP (16 May 1938 – 18 December 2001) was a Sri Lanka Army officer. He was 12th Commander of the Sri Lankan Army and a former Sri Lankan Ambassador to Thailand. Education Educated at St. Benedict's College, Colombo, where he played for the college cricket team. Military career Early career Waidyaratne joined the Ceylon Army on 26 June 1959, as a cadet officer and received his officer training at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. On 28 July 1961, he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the 1st Reconnaissance Regiment, Ceylon Armoured Corps. He served with the 1st Reconnaissance Regiment during the 1971 JVP insurrection and in 1973, he attended the Defence Services Staff College in Wellington gaining his psc qualification. Field command On January 1, 1980, he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel and was appointed commanding officer of the Sri Lanka Electrical and Mechanical Engineers when fraud and robbery was r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sri Lanka Civil Defence Force
The Department of Civil Security ( Sinhala: සිවිල් ආරක්ෂක දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව ''Sivil ārakshaka depathamentuwā''; Tamil: சிவில் பாதுகாப்பு துறை) (also known as the Civil Defence Force) is an auxiliary force administrated by the Ministry of Defence. It traces its roots to the Home Guards which were lightly armed local volunteers organized to protect their villages from attacks by the LTTE. These units were formed into the National Home Guard Service in 1986 under the Mobilization of Supplementary Force Act No. 40 of 1985. These home-guardsmen came under the command of the local police becoming one of two paramilitary units under the Sri Lanka Police. The Home Guard Service was re-structured on under the Gazette notification No. 1462/20 of 13 September 2006 which established the Civil Security Department (CSD). The CSD is headed by a Director General, currently held by Major General N.R. L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Special Task Force (Sri Lanka)
The Special Task Force (STF) ( Sinhala: විශේෂ කාර්ය බලකාය ''Visesha Karya Balakaya''; Tamil: சிறப்பு அதிரடிப் படை) is a tier 1 police tactical unit of the Sri Lanka Police specialising in clandestine and covert operations, combat and patrolling in urban areas, combat search and rescue, counterinsurgency and counterterrorism operations, crowd control, executive protection, forward observer, hostage rescue, indirect fire, irregular warfare, jungle and mountain warfare, parachuting, psychological warfare, search and rescue people who are in distress or imminent danger from disaster. serving high-risk arrest and search warrants, special reconnaissance, support military operations, tactical emergency medical, tracking, and unconventional tactics. It was formed in 1983 not as a military force, but rather as a highly specialised armed police unit. Function The STF heads counterinsurgency, counterterrorism, hostage resc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sri Lankan Police
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Lalith Wijerathna
Lalith may refer to * Lalith Dissanayake, Sri Lankan politician * Lalith Athulathmudali, Sri Lankan politician * Babu M.R. Lalith, Indian chess player * Lalith Wijerathna, Sri Lankan politician * Lalith Kaluperuma, Sri Lankan cricketer * Lalith Kotelawala, Sri Lankan businessman * Lalith J. Rao, Indian classical singer * Lalith Weeratunga, Sri Lankan politician * Lalith Gamage, Sri Lankan professor * Lalith Jayasinghe, Sri Lankan Army officer * Lalith Jayasundara Lalith Vasantha Jayasundara (born 4 February 1953) is a Sri Lankan former cricket umpire. He stood in nine ODI games between 1999 and 2001. Jayasundara, an old boy of Isipathana College, represented his school at cricket in all age groups and ..., Sri Lankan cricketer umpire {{given name Sinhalese masculine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shantha Bandara
Shantha Bandara alias Mahanama (1951−1990) was the first convenor of the Inter University Students' Federation (IUSF) and a key leader of Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna, a Marxist-Leninist political party in Sri Lanka. He was killed in January 1990. Student activism Shantha Bandara was a student at University of Sri Lanka, Peradeniya campus when he started his political career joining the ''Samaja Adhyayana Kavaya'' (Social Studies Circle) of the university. He was instrumental in creating the Inter University Students' Federation (IUSF) - a major university student union in Sri Lanka - in 1978. He also led a protest against the prevailing United National Party government in 1979. Bandara did not complete his degree. JVP and insurgency 1987−1989 He joined Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna in 1977. After becoming the leader of southern region, he headed the list of candidates of JVP at the Colombo Municipal Council elections. Bandara was a key leader of the unsuccessful JVP insurrectio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Premakumar Gunaratnam
Premakumar Gunaratnam in politics, is a former Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna, JVP leader and political activist in Sri Lanka who later became an Australian citizen and the current general secretary of FLSP. Early life Gunaratnam was born on 18 November 1965 to Aadheemoolam Pillai Gunaratnam from Alaveddy in Jaffna, and Valliamma Rajamany from Kegalle. He was educated in St. Mary's College, Kegalle, and Pinnawala Central College, Rambukkana.http://www.lakbimanews.lk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3019:premakumar-gunaratnam-jvps-next-flop-or-hope&catid=35:news-features&Itemid=37 He entered the University of Peradeniya Faculty of Engineering and became a student leader within a short while after entering the university. He did not complete his degree; although his profession is stated as an "Engineer". He is married to a Sinhalese people, Sinhalese doctor, Champa Somaratna, a resident in Australia. Politics with JVP During 1988–1989, Gunaratnam functioned as the Trincom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Somawansa Amarasinghe
Amarasinghe Kankanamlage Somawansa (1 January 1943 – 15 June 2016 as si, සෝමවංශ අමරසිංහ), commonly as Somawansha Amarasinghe, was a Sri Lankan politician, and the 4th leader of Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna, after Rohana Wijeweera, Saman Piyasiri Fernando and Lalith Wijerathna and served as its leader for 23 years until February 2, 2014. He is often described as a strategic leader who socialized the ideological struggle of the JVP into socialism through the nationalist struggle to save the country from Tamil separatist terrorism. He was the leader of People's Servants Party, established in June 2015, until his death. Personal life He was born on 1 January 1943 in Angangoda village, Payagala, Sri Lanka as the youngest of the family. He had 4 elder brothers and 3 elder sisters. His father was James Amarasinghe, who first served in the police and later joined the Department of Irrigation, and his mother was a housewife. He completed his primary education at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saman Piyasiri Fernando
Sellapperumage Saman Piyasiri Fernando (23 March 1958 – 29 December 1989: si, සමන් පියසිරි ප්රනාන්දු: ''nom de guerre'': Keerthi Vijayabahu), was the military wing leader of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna during the 1987-89 insurrection in Sri Lanka, the JVP's military wing also known as Deshapremi Janatha Viyaparaya (DJV). His position in the JVP as the military commander was organizationally higher than the position of Rohana Wijeweera, the founder of the JVP. Saman Piyasiri a graduate of the University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka later joined the JVP and promoted to the higher ranks of the party, appointed as the military wing leader and finally led the party after the death of the founding leader Rohana Wijeweera. He was also known as Kabraal, Mendis, Bappa, Mudiyanse, Mahinda, Dhammika and Janaka. Family background and early life He was born on 23 March 1958 in Lunawa, Moratuwa, Sri Lanka as the third child in a Karava ethnic family ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Upatissa Gamanayake
Don Upatissa Gamanayake ( si, උපතිස්ස ගමනායක; 17 October 1948 – 13 November 1989), also known by his alias Dias Mudalali, was a Sri Lankan politician and the deputy leader of the Jantha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) during the 1987–89 insurrection. Not a prominent figure during the JVP's 1971 insurrection, Gamanayake emerged as a leader only after the releasing of the JVP detainees in 1977. He moved up rapidly in the party hierarchy during the JVP's 1977-83 democratic phase and became the second in command after the founder and the leader, Rohana Wijeweera. He unsuccessfully contested the 1983 Anamaduwa by-election under JVP. Gamanayake was captured and killed by the government forces in November 1989.C.A. Chandraprema (1991), ''Sri Lanka, The Years of Terror - The JVP Insurrection, 1987-1989'', Lake House Bookshop,, p.7 Family background He was born on 17 October 1948 in Mahingala, Padukka, Sri Lanka as the seventh child in a family with nine siblings. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rohana Wijeweera
Patabendi Don Jinadasa Nandasiri Wijeweera ( si, පටබැඳි දොන් ජිනදාස නන්දසිරි විජෙවීර; 14 July 1943 – 13 November 1989, better known by his ''nom de guerre'' Rohana Wijeweera, was a Sri Lankan Marxist-Leninist political activist, revolutionary and the founder of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP; ). Wijeweera led the party in two unsuccessful insurrections in Sri Lanka, in 1971 and 1987 to 1989. He formed the JVP in 1965, with the intention of replacing the Dominion of Ceylon with a socialist republic. The JVP ideologically supported the Tamil militants, calling it a war for self-determination, but opposed the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. Following the Indo-Lanka accord, the JVP, with the leadership of Wijeweera and a secondary faction, launched a military and social campaign with the aim of overthrowing the government of Sri Lanka. This included two major insurgencies, in 1971 and 1987–1989. In 1989, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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