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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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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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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launched a second insurrection in 1987, seeking to overthrow the then-incumbent United National Party government. As the tension grew, JVP and its military...
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The following is a list of notable assassinations of the Second JVP Insurrection, most of which were carried out by the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna or by...
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Thrividha Balaya, as well as counter-insurgency operations during the 1987–1989 JVP insurrection. Rajapaksa took early retirement from the army and moved into...
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Kandy District of the Central Province, Sri Lanka during the 1987–1989 JVP insurrection. While the massacre was officially attributed to an anti-communist...
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Rohana Wijeweera (category 1989 deaths)
Peramuna (JVP; transl. People's Liberation Front). Wijeweera led the party in two unsuccessful insurrections in Sri Lanka, in 1971 and 1987 to 1989. He formed...
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Operation Combine (category 1987–1989 JVP insurrection)
Wijeratne, State Minister of Defence on 4 August 1989 at the height of the 1987–89 JVP Insurrection in the south of Sri Lanka. The Special Task Force...
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Attack on the Pallekele detachment (category 1987–1989 JVP insurrection)
Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP; People's Liberation Front). The attack was led by Keerthi Vijayabahu, as a preparation for the 1987-1989 JVP insurrection. The Sri Lankan...
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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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Batalanda detention centre (category 1987–1989 JVP insurrection)
during the 1987–89 JVP insurrection to detain persons who were linked to or suspected to have links to the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP), as part of...
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Eagles of the Central Hills (category 1987–1989 JVP insurrection)
paramilitary group in Sri Lanka. It was mainly active during the 1987–1989 JVP insurrection, where it was one of the main anti-communist paramilitaries alongside...
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Assassination of Daya Pathirana (category 1987–1989 JVP insurrection)
of 1971 and 1987-1989, Ethnic Studies Report, ICES, Vol. XVII, No. 1, January 1999. List of assassinations of the Second JVP Insurrection Inter University...
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Black Cat group (category 1987–1989 JVP insurrection)
late 1989. It was one of the 13 death squads sponsored by the Sri Lankan government to suppress opposition during the 1987–1989 JVP insurrection. The...
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election was held amidst both the Sri Lankan Civil War and the 1987–1989 JVP insurrection. Voter turnout was only 55.32%, substantially lower than the previous...
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Wijedasa Liyanarachchi (category 1989 deaths)
human rights in Sri Lanka during the 1987–1989 JVP insurrection. State terrorism in Sri Lanka 1987–89 JVP Insurrection Fernando, Ravindra (2015). Death of...
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Sri Lankan Civil War (section Eelam War I (1983–1987))
with destroying rival Tamil groups while the government cracked down on the JVP uprising with the Operation Combine. When both major combatants had established...
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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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Coordinating Officer of the North Central Province during the 1987–1989 JVP insurrection and Commissioner General for Rehabilitation. Born to Mendis and...
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Terrorism in Sri Lanka (section JVP insurrections)
Lankan Civil War (1983–2009) and the first (1971) and second JVP insurrections (1987–1989). A common definition of terrorism is the systematic or threatened...
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Deshapremi Janatha Vyaparaya (category 1987–1989 JVP insurrection)
organization of the JVP, these include the attack on the SLAF detachment in Pallekele. In 1989 the organising committee of the JVP ordered Premakumar to...
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Anura Kumara Dissanayake (section JVP Politburo)
engaged in full time political activities from 1987, with the onset of the 1987–1989 JVP insurrection. He entered the University of Peradeniya and left...
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Assassination of Vijaya Kumaratunga (category 1987–1989 JVP insurrection)
attacked the Pallekele Army Camp in Kandy, and thus began the 1987–1989 JVP insurrection. During this period, Kumaratunga was in support of the peace agreement...
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Attack on the Magazine prison (category 1987–1989 JVP insurrection)
Indian Army in Sri Lankan soil. By this time, JVP was equipped with experiences of a failed insurrection in 1971, against the government of Sirimavo Bandaranaike...
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Nandathilaka Galappaththi (category 1989 deaths)
Education Secretary during the 1987–1989 JVP insurrection, was the Political Secretary for the Badulla in 1987 and 1989 as well as Kegalle District when...
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conspiring to overthrow the state violently. The JVP launched a more organized insurrection for the second time in 1987 after the signing of the Indo-Sri Lanka...
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took part in the Vadamarachchi Operation in May 1987. With the start of the 1987–1989 JVP insurrection both regular and volunteer units of the regiment...
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Vijaya Wimalaratne (section JVP Insurrection)
and the arrival of the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF), the 1987–1989 JVP insurrection began in the south of the country. Colonel Wimalaratne was appointed...
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Terrence Perera (category 1987 deaths)
(JVP) and its subversion activitis during the 1987–1989 JVP insurrection when he was gundown by an JVP hitmen in Battaramulla on 3 December 1987. "JVP...
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