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ජවිපෙ (JVP) (Sinhala) மவிமு (MVM) Leader: Anura Kumara Dissanayake: General Secretary: Tilvin Silva: Founder: Rohana Wijeweera: Founded: 14 May 1965 (59 years ago) () Split from: Ceylon Communist Party–Peking Wing: Preceded by: New Left Movement: Headquarters: 464/20 Pannipitiya Road, Pelawatta, Battaramulla, Sri Lanka ...
This is a list of notable people assassinated by the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP). JVP is a Sri Lankan Marxist-Leninist, communist party which was involved in two armed uprisings against the ruling governments in 1971 (SLFP) and 1987–89 (UNP).
Former Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (1993–1994, 2001–2004, 2015–2018, 2018–2019, 2022) Gas Cylinder United National Party; Breakaway members of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna [41] Ceylon Workers' Congress [42] De facto Central Committee of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party [43] Eelam People's Democratic Party [44] Mahajana Eksath Peramuna [45]
1987–1989 JVP insurrection; Part of the Cold War and Sri Lankan Civil War: Clockwise, from top left: A militia of the DJV, graffiti on the wall of a post office reading "let's kill J. R.", a bus that was burnt by the DJV, a security guard in front of the BOC vandalized by the DJV
The 1971 Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) insurrection (also known as the 1971 Revolt) was the first of two unsuccessful armed revolts conducted by the communist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) against the socialist United Front Government of Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) under Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike. The revolt began on 5 April 1971 and ...
The following is a list of notable attacks on civilians attributed to the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP), a Sri Lankan Marxist-Leninist, communist group. Attacks in chronological order [ edit ]
Tilvin Silva took part in the JVP revolution leading attacks against the Sri Lankan Government and its armed forces as a JVP district leader. He was one of the few district leaders who survived the brutal counter-insurgency operations of the Sri Lankan Armed Forces that led to the capture and deaths of the JVP leader Rohana Wijeweera and much ...
Harini Nireka Amarasuriya [j] (born 6 March 1970) is a Sri Lankan sociologist, academic, activist, and politician serving as Prime Minister of Sri Lanka since 2024.. Having spent a decade as an academic at the Open University of Sri Lanka, where she was engaged with the Federation of University Teachers' Association in trade union action; Amarasuriya was nominated by the National People's ...