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EX-JVP LEADER SOMAWANSA DECLARED IN 2015 – DELAY MEANS DEATH TO JVP, INCLUDING ME Translated & reproduced in English – By Dr Tilak S Fernando   The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna is now known as ‘National People’s Power (Jathika Jana Balawegaya). The writer came across an interview with the former JVP leader, Somawansa Amarasinghe, the International Secretary of the party, who died at the age of 73, was interviewed by Ramesh Waralegama, in a Sinhala paper in June 2015, which has been translated into English for the Daily News. After being a member of the JVP for 46 years, Somawansa Amarasinghe left the party as the Leader of the JVP in 2015. A journalist interviewed him in a Sunday newspaper during the same week he decided to quit as e the party leader.  “There is nothing about crying or laughing in politics. My decision does not make anyone exclaim or chuckle, ...

Oct 26, 2022 Posted by In Articles, Tilak S Fernando Tagged , , ,
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The JVP’s Military Battle for Power-By Jayantha Somasundaram Source:Island The JVP evolved in the late 1960s under Rohana Wijeweera as a radical rural youth group. It believed that a socialist change in Sri Lanka could only be effected through a sudden armed insurrection launched simultaneously across the country. Recruits to the JVP underwent a series of political classes as well as military training, while the organisation clandestinely armed itself. The United Front Government responded in March 1971 with a State of Emergency, the arrest of JVP cadre and the deploying of the Army to the provinces. In March 1971 events rapidly escalated. The JVP believed that the government was planning to use the Army to launch an all out offensive against them. And on 2nd April nine JVP leaders, six members of the Political Bureau and three District Secretaries, met at the Vidyodaya Sangaramaya at a meeting presided over by ...

Apr 11, 2021 Posted by In Articles Tagged ,
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Origins and growth of Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna-By Jayantha Somasundaram Source:Island The 50th anniversary of the first JVP insurrection falls today. The 1971 rebellion was the first armed uprising against the state in modern times. The JVP was the brainchild of Rohana Wijeweera. Born in 1943, at Hunandeniya, in the Matara District, his father was a supporter of the Communist Party of Ceylon (CPC). However, while studying medicine in Moscow, Wijeweera became critical of the Soviet Union, and, on his return, he joined the Communist Party (CP), which was Maoist. Not long after, in 1966, Wijeweera, along with his supporters, broke ranks with the CP to form their own movement, which would later become the JVP. Wijeweera had concluded that the agricultural labourer -̶ the rural proletariat -̶ was the largest and most important component of Sri Lanka’s working class, not the urban or plantation worker. ...

Apr 8, 2021 Posted by In Articles Tagged
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