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Acts of
violence against JVP supporters and candidates for the provincial
council election in the East have by now been intensified. JVP
supporters who were engaged in election propaganda in Thirukkovil area
came to be the target of a marauding attack at 3.30 pm yesterday (05)
from an armed gang of pilleyan group contesting the election with the
government.
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National Question in Sri Lanka has been compounded by foreign
intervention - Comrade Somawansa Amarasinghe |
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JVP leader comrade
Somawansa Amarasinghe says that national Question in Sri Lanka has been
compounded by foreign interventions. JVP leader said this when he met
human right chief of the Denmark foreign ministry Mr. Harns Garnet
24th April.
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Comrade
Wijesekera released |
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Comrade
Jayanthe Wijesekera, JVP Parliamentarian and two other comrades
who were remanded on a complaint made by Parliamentarians
Piyasiri Wijenayake and Achala Jagoda on the 11th that they were
involved in removing two vehicles parked in Parliamentary
complex were set free on bail on the 21st.
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Government is
definitely behind the attempt to split
the party! – Comrade Tilvin Silva |
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The force behind the attempt to split the JVP is Mahinda Rajapakse
government says General Secretary of the JVP Comrade Tilvin Silva. In an
interview he held with ‘Lanka’ Sunday newspaper Comrade Tilvin Silva says
Mahinda Rajapakse government used Wimal Weerawansa to manipulate the JVP
according to their whims and fancies and to get information regarding the
party. The full text of the interview in Sinhalese is reproduced here.
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About Us.. |
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Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) of Sri Lanka was founded on the 14th of May 1965.
The 1971 April Up-rising took place as an exercise of self-defense during the continuous capitalist state suppression in which nearly 10,000 members of the movement were slaughtered and about 20,000 members were held in detention in prisons.
Later in 1976 as the state of emergency was lifted, the proscription on the party came to an end and the party engaged in mainstream political activities again.
In 1983 July the party was proscribed without a justifiable reason and all the steps taken by the party to reverse the proscription were futile. During that time there was a complex political environment in the country and the state suppression was intensified.
Comrade Rohana Wijeweera was arrested and on the 13th of November 1989 and was murdered while in custody.
The only surviving political bureau member comrade Somawansa Amarasinghe left Sri Lanka and lead the party from abroad.
In 1994 the government had to lift the emergency as a result of the agitations of the people. The JVP entered the mainstream politics, contested the 1994 General Elections under the party name of National Salvation Front (in coalition with Progressive Front) and won a parliamentary seat in Hambantota district. At the Presidential Elections 1994 the JVP nominated comrade Nihal Galappththi as the National Salvation Front’s Presidential candidate.
10 legislators were elected to the parliament at the 2000 General Elections representing the JVP in the parliament and then at the General Election held on 5th December 2001, JVP won 16 seats in the parliament. At the Local Government elections held in 2002, 219 representatives of the JVP were elected.
After having discussions for more that 10 months the PA and the JVP formed the United Peoples Freedom Alliance (UPFA) in January 2004. Having won the election held on 2nd April 2004 the UPFA formed the government. The JVP won 39 seats in the Parliament. |
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