• Thumbnail for Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna
    Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP / PLF; lit. 'People's Liberation Front') is a Marxist–Leninist communist party in Sri Lanka. The party was formerly a revolutionary...
    56 KB (5,784 words) - 15:19, 26 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for 1971 JVP insurrection
    The 1971 Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) insurrection (also known as the 1971 Revolt) was the first of two unsuccessful armed revolts conducted by the...
    64 KB (7,671 words) - 04:06, 5 May 2024
  • established in 2019 by Anura Kumara Dissanayake, leader of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna. It consists of 28 political parties and other organisations....
    8 KB (436 words) - 17:44, 16 April 2024
  • parliamentarians led by Wimal Weerawansa, as a breakaway group of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP). The NFF commenced political activities on 14 May 2008....
    5 KB (455 words) - 23:39, 1 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Temple of the Tooth
    to those present. The temple sustained damage from bombings by Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna in 1989, and by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in 1998....
    16 KB (1,525 words) - 00:52, 18 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rohana Wijeweera
    Rohana Wijeweera (category Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna politicians)
    Marxist political activist, revolutionary and the founder of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP; transl. People's Liberation Front). Wijeweera led the party...
    20 KB (2,053 words) - 01:25, 15 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Desha Vimukthi Janatha Pakshaya
    The Desha Vimukthi Janatha Pakshaya (DVJP) (National Liberation People's Party) is a political party in Sri Lanka. It is currently a member of the Socialist...
    2 KB (82 words) - 13:20, 23 January 2023
  • Thumbnail for 2019 Sri Lankan presidential election
    Pathirana, Ankumbura Withanage, and Ashoka Abeysinghe. 18 August – Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake is announced as the presidential...
    67 KB (4,263 words) - 05:51, 1 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Socialism in Sri Lanka
    essential items were rationed by the government at the time. Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna is a communist and Marxist–Leninist party and political movement...
    5 KB (392 words) - 16:59, 9 April 2024
  • of Sri Lanka (1993–1994, 2001–2004, 2015–2019, 2022) Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna Gotabaya Rajapaksa, 8th President of Sri Lanka (2019–2022) Basil Rajapaksa...
    23 KB (931 words) - 11:26, 4 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for 1987–1989 JVP insurrection
    1987–1989 JVP insurrection (category Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna)
    was an armed revolt in Sri Lanka, led by the Marxist–Leninist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna, against the Government of Sri Lanka. The insurrection, like the...
    78 KB (8,588 words) - 06:23, 13 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna
    nation's two other major parties: Anura Kumara Dissanayake's leftist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna moved closer to social democracy and Sajith Premadasa's free-market...
    33 KB (2,726 words) - 02:04, 31 May 2024
  • 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...
    7 KB (674 words) - 07:43, 16 May 2024
  • also widely used in the second armed insurrection led by the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna. A graphic description of one such necklacing appears in the book...
    14 KB (1,441 words) - 10:17, 2 June 2024
  • and control over most of the island's local authorities. The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna contested in this election as well. The elections resulted in...
    83 KB (4,999 words) - 23:17, 19 April 2024
  • following is a list of notable attacks on civilians attributed to the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP), a Sri Lankan Marxist-Leninist, communist group. List of...
    7 KB (281 words) - 17:11, 30 April 2024
  • state terrorism. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) are two of the most prominent and most deadly terrorist...
    44 KB (4,389 words) - 11:38, 25 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for 2001 Sri Lankan parliamentary election
    SLMP) Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (People's Liberation Front, JVP) Sri Lanka Muslim Congress Tamil United Liberation Front (Tamil Vimuktasi Peramuna, TVP)...
    13 KB (619 words) - 13:05, 31 March 2024
  • of Israeli assassinations List of people assassinated by the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna, a Sri Lankan communist party List of assassinations of the Second...
    9 KB (1,318 words) - 19:02, 16 May 2024
  • Assassination of Daya Pathirana (category Terrorist attacks attributed to the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna)
    Students Union of University of Colombo during 1985-1986. Pro-Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna activists (some of them were members of Inter University Students'...
    6 KB (585 words) - 06:59, 18 October 2022
  • Thumbnail for Sirimavo Bandaranaike
    by the 1971 Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna Insurrection of left-wing youths. Though aware of the militant stance of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (People's Liberation...
    122 KB (11,886 words) - 06:21, 3 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Deshapremi Janatha Vyaparaya
    considered to be the military branch of the Marxist–Leninist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna and had been designated as a terrorist organisation by the Sri...
    15 KB (1,599 words) - 02:52, 19 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Shantha Bandara
    Shantha Bandara (category Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna politicians)
    Inter University Students' Federation (IUSF) and a key leader of Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna, a Marxist-Leninist political party in Sri Lanka. He was killed...
    4 KB (333 words) - 19:21, 25 October 2022
  • Thumbnail for Frontline Socialist Party
    It was launched on 9 April 2012 by dissident members of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna. The Frontline Socialist Party (FLSP) was launched at the First...
    9 KB (564 words) - 14:58, 13 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for History of Sri Lanka
    government's language policy. 1971 Uprising The leftist Sinhalese Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna drew worldwide attention when it launched an insurrection against...
    83 KB (10,117 words) - 19:24, 14 June 2024
  • After defeating the insurgency led by the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) in 1971, the Sri Lanka Armed Forces were confronted with a new conflict, this...
    13 KB (204 words) - 01:24, 29 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Anura Kumara Dissanayake
    Anura Kumara Dissanayake (category Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna politicians)
    Parliament from the Colombo District, the current party leader of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (from 2014) and the National People's Power (from 2019). A former...
    14 KB (825 words) - 11:55, 4 June 2024
  • Somawansa Amarasinghe (category Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna politicians)
    Amarasinghe, was a Sri Lankan politician, and the 4th leader of Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna, after Rohana Wijeweera, Saman Piyasiri Fernando and Lalith Wijerathna...
    14 KB (1,480 words) - 17:30, 16 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for 2015 Sri Lankan parliamentary election
    increase of two from 2010. The remaining eight seats were won by Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (6), Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (1) and Eelam People's Democratic...
    83 KB (5,418 words) - 23:04, 8 June 2024
  • 1989 Temple of the Tooth attack (category Terrorist attacks attributed to the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna)
    8 February 1989, allegedly by the armed cadres affiliated to Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP), a Marxist–Leninist political party in Sri Lanka. In the...
    17 KB (1,747 words) - 09:21, 4 May 2024