The 1971 Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) insurrection (also known as the 1971 Revolt) was the first of two unsuccessful armed revolts conducted by the...
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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...
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1971 JVP insurrection, the first attempt by the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna to overthrow the Sri Lankan government. 1987–1989 JVP insurrection, the second...
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Maltese Insurrection 1971 JVP insurrection, a Sri Lankan war initiated by the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna ("People's Liberation Front") 1987–1989 JVP insurrection...
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arrest of JVP leader Rohana Wijeweera; the police failed to gauge scale and magnitude of the JVP insurrection which was launched in April 1971 taking the...
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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)...
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Sri Lanka Armed Forces (section First JVP Insurrection)
ill-prepared for the insurgency launched by the Marxist JVP in April 1971. The 1971 JVP Insurrection saw Ceylon Armed Forces mobilizing for combat operations...
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Rohana Wijeweera (section 1971 Insurrection)
Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP; transl. People's Liberation Front). Wijeweera led the party in two unsuccessful insurrections in Sri Lanka, in 1971 and 1987 to 1989...
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they began an insurrection against the Dominion of Ceylon in early 1971, which intensified following the ban on the party. The JVP's military wing, the...
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India, Israel and Egypt. It saw action with the Ceylon Army in the 1971 JVP insurrection. By the early 1900s, the U.S. military had a mixed collection of...
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stopping the attempted military coup of 1962. Later in 1971 during the 1971 JVP Insurrection he was appointed as Additional Secretary of the Ministry...
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Ceylonese protests against the Vietnam War (category 1971 JVP insurrection)
insurrection to take cover the government through an armed revaluation. 1971 JVP insurrection 1953 Ceylonese Hartal Anti-American sentiment Decolonization of...
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following his basic training. He saw active service during the 1971 JVP Insurrection. In 1986, Lieutenant Colonel Weerasekara served as the commanding...
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2014) was a Sri Lankan revolutionary and politician. A JVP leader of the 1971 JVP insurrection, Jayasinghe was later elected to the Sri Lankan Parliament...
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Realpolitik Ping-pong diplomacy 1971 JVP insurrection Corrective Revolution (Egypt) 1971 Turkish military memorandum 1971 Sudanese coup d'état Four Power...
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Sri Lanka Navy (section Insurrection)
the second JVP insurrection from 1987 to 1990. 53 service personnel were killed and 323 were wounded in the first JVP insurrection from 1971 to 1972. Notable...
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Janaka Perera (section Second JVP insurrection)
Royal College of Defence Studies. He first saw action during the 1971 JVP Insurrection as Lieutenant and was promoted to captain in 1973. He was promoted...
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Commissions were formed, the first in 1972 to try the perpetrators of the 1971 JVP insurrection and the second in 1975 to prosecute exchange control offences. The...
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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...
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Hansa Regiment (category 1971 JVP insurrection)
formed by employees of the Ceylon Transport Board (CTB) during the 1971 JVP insurrection. The Hansa Regiment numbered around 2,000 lightly armed CTB trade...
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and lead the battalion through the 1971 JVP Insurrection, conducting counterinsurgency operations. In December 1971, he took over as commanding officer...
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Detachment following the 1962 attempted coup d'état and during the 1971 JVP insurrection. Today, the Prime Minister's Security Division is in charge of security...
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several ex-British Army Saladins following the outbreak of the 1971 JVP insurrection and were deployed counter-insurgency operations. These were used...
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England. As a result, the navy was poorly prepared when in 1971 the 1971 JVP Insurrection began, the navy had to send its sailors for ground combat operations...
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Publications. p. 114. In the late 1950s Hazaras again organized an armed insurrection in opposition to the imposition of heavy taxes. The state pacified the...
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officer on 26 April 1971, when Sri Lanka was still a dominion of the British Commonwealth and was in the midst of the 1971 JVP insurrection. Following his...
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1969–present: New People's Army rebellion 1970: Teoponte Guerrilla 1971: JVP insurrection 1971: Sudanese coup d'état 1972–1974: Araguaia Guerrilla War 1972–present:...
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1989 Temple of the Tooth attack (category 1987–1989 JVP insurrection)
presence of IPKF in Sri Lanka. By this time, the JVP was equipped with experiences of a failed insurrection in 1971, against the government of Sirimavo Bandaranaike...
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1990s having served with the 1st Reconnaissance Regiment in the 1971 JVP insurrection and early part of the Sri Lankan Civil War most notably during the...
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Kandy was expanded and in April 1971, the battalion was mobilized for active service with the 1971 JVP Insurrection and was deployed in counter-insurgency...
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