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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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especially after the Tamil Eelam revolutionary Thileepan's fatal hunger strike in 1987 had no effect. Influenced by Indian nationalists Subhas Chandra Bose and...
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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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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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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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Sri Lanka Air Force (section 1971 Insurrection)
Branch in 1989 by Air Vice Marshal Oliver Ranasinghe, it initially under took counter insurgency operations during the 1987–1989 JVP insurrection and thereafter...
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when it was deployed to the Matale District at the height of the 1987–1989 JVP insurrection undertaking counter insurgency operations in the district. He...
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by the Supreme Court of India. The Commission report stated that the year 1989 signified "the perpetuation of the general political trend of indulging the...
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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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