Gunaratnam says President Anura Kumara Dissanayake and Govt. bear significant responsibility to investigate deaths of JVP ...

As the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) commemorates its 35th “November Heroes” day this year, it finds itself having ascended to the highest political office in the land after its candidate won the ...

Monday 5th April, 2021 The 50th anniversary of the first JVP insurrection falls today. The JVP emerged as a political movement, driven by a ‘Marxist’ ideology... It was a tragedy for this country that ...

The insurrection owes its name to Dharmadasa who was caught on ... whines hollowly that it would renegotiate the terms of surrender with the yanks. The JVP/NPP remained slyly silent on the issue until ...

Amarasuriya, born in Galle, studied at Bishops College in Colombo. As a result of the JVP insurrection in the South and the Civil War in the North, she relocated from the University of Kelaniya to ...

However, the second insurrection, between 1987-1990, became even more anti-Indian with the JVP criticising the Indo-Lanka accord that permitted the deployment of Indian Peace Keeping Forces (IPKF ...

Coming from a non-political family, 19-year-old Dissanayake actively participated in the 1987-89 armed insurrection by the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP). The insurgency and the subsequent ...

Last but far from least, the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) – the central party in the NPP coalition – has a history of racism. It launched an insurrection in opposition to the Indo-Lanka ...

In 1971, at the height of the JVP insurrection, the then-socialist regime of Mrs. Sirimavo Bandaranaike expelled the North Korean ambassador from Colombo (but did not accuse China), and India ...

In 1971, a year after the election that established the free, sovereign and independent republic, the JVP was part of an insurrection against the government led by the then Prime Minister Sirimavo ...