Rohana Wijeweera, leader of the JVP, is released from prison.
Quotation
“With Wijeweera’s release the JVP organised a large number of public rallies. The first was at Nanuoya Railway in the Nuwara-Eliya district. Mass meetings of the JVP at Anuradhapura, Hingurakgoda, Kegalle, Kurunegala, Wellawaya, Tangalla, Tissamaharama, Kandy, Galle, Negombo, Chilaw, Moratuwa and Elpitiya drew large crowds. In September 1970 Wijeweera held the first two meetings of the JVP Politbureau in Ambalangoda…Wijeweera directed a bureau member Loku Athula to head the arms section. He was requested to collect 100,000 bombs and to table what he collected at the next meeting”. Rohan Gunaratna (1990)” Sri Lanka A Lost Revolution? The Inside Story of the JVP.
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