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1. archive.roar.media › english › lifeRevolutionary Strategy: The JVP’s 1971 Insurrection

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   May 9, 2017 · The JVP, in its bid to launch a revolution within a short period, resorted to gun theft. Former intelligence officer Godahewa Indradasa, in his book Failed Revolts in Sri Lanka (1971 and 1987-1989), states that gun thefts of a similar pattern were reported in the latter part of 1970. There were reports of robberies where only guns and ...

2. www.sundaytimes.lk › 230205 › sunday-times-2Shades of 1971 JVP uprising in current crisis | Print Edition ...

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   Feb 5, 2023 · Like today, foodstuffs made up a large part of the country’s imports – around 53 per cent. Unemployment continued to rise in 1971. Out of a labour force of 4.4 million, 585,000 were officially unemployed. The economic authority of the time, Dr N.M. Perera, estimated the figure to be around 700,000. Out of the 585,000 who were unemployed ...

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   How did the JVP affect Sri Lanka?

   • The JVP drew worldwide attention when it launched an insurrection against the Bandaranaike government in April 1971. Although the insurgents were young, poorly armed, and inadequately trained, they seized and held major areas in the southern and central provinces of Sri Lanka before they were defeated by the security forces.

   Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna - Wikipedia

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   Why was Sri Lanka a 'lost Revolution'?

   • Gunaratna, Sri Lanka: A Lost Revolution, pp. 145–52 and 156–61. This persecution was partly at least in revenge for the fact that the police had been the JVP's main target in 1971. It seems unlikely that it was authorized by the President, and may not have been known to him, although many UNP members were implicated.

   Thoroughly Modern Revolutionaries: The JVP in Sri Lanka

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   When did Somawansa return to Sri Lanka?

   • The Jailed JVP members were released in the late 1970s Somawansa who became a Politburo Member in 1984, assumed the Leadership of the JVP in 1990, as Wijeweera had been killed in November 1989. He returned to Sri Lanka in 2001 and came back for good in 2004. The rest sis history.

   Bloody Memories: The JVP Insurrection 1971 | Thuppahi's Blog

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   What happened at the Sangaramaya temple of Vidyodaya University?

   • “ The decision taken by the nine senior members of the JVP when they met at the Sangaramaya Temple of the Vidyodaya University on April 2, 1971, was to capture State power by attacking all the police stations in the country on the night of April 5, 1971 .” – “Rohan Gunaratna: Sri Lanka: A Lost Revolution? The Inside story of the JVP”

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4. thuppahis.com › 2017/04/05 › bloody-memories-the-jvpBloody Memories: The JVP Insurrection 1971 | Thuppahi's Blog

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   Apr 5, 2017 · The failed insurrection: A JVP suspect arrested by the armed forces. Pix courtesy the JVP. The government at the time estimate that the cost of the damages caused by the 1971 revolution amounted to over Rs 20 million. Today, as we mark the 46th Anniversary of the 1971 JVP Revolution, both the nature of the JVP as well as the Sri Lankan state ...

5. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Janatha_Vimukthi_PeramunaJanatha Vimukthi Peramuna - Wikipedia

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   t. e. Janatha Vimukti Peramuna leadership at May Day Celebration in Colombo in 1999. Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna [a] ( JVP / PLF; lit. 'People's Liberation Front') is a Marxist–Leninist communist party in Sri Lanka. [6] The party was formerly a revolutionary movement and was involved in two armed uprisings against the government of Sri Lanka ...

6. www.cambridge.org › core › journalsThoroughly Modern Revolutionaries: The JVP in Sri Lanka

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   Wijeweera spent his last months living with his family in the guise of a retired plantation owner in a large house in a rural area. For more general information on the JVP's organization, see Chandraprema, Sri Lanka: The Years of Terror; ch. 2;Google Scholar and Gunaratna, Sri Lanka: A Lost Revolution, pp. 22, 37–48, 213–20 and 324–5.

7. www.cambridge.org › core › journalsA Note on the Fate of the 1971 Insurgents in Sri Lanka

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   2 See Obeyesekere, Gananath, “Some Comments on the Social Backgrounds of the April 1971 Insurgency in Sri Lanka (Ceylon),” Journal of Asian Studies, XXXIII (1974), pp. 367 –84CrossRef Google Scholar. Also my “Educational Expansion and Political Volatility Sri Lanka: The 1971 Insurrection,” Asian Survey, XV (September 1975), PP. 727 –44.

8. www.deccanchronicle.com › opinion › columnistsA forgotten story of 1971: When India’s frigate ...

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   May 30, 2022 · A forgotten story of 1971: When India’s frigate, helicopters, troops saved Lanka. The recent stormy Sri Lanka protests reminded me of the near takeover in 1971, which India prevented. Sadly ...