The government proscribes the JVP, Communist Party (CP) and the NLSSP (Vasudeva Baahu Vikrambaahu Kanakaratna’s Party).
Quotation
“The UNP (United National Party) in 1983 committed the signal (and completely unwarranted) error of proscribing the JVP on spurious charges. This unjust proscription of the JVP was perhaps the single biggest mistake committed by the J R Jayewardene regime, not excluding July 1983—since contrary to the current dominant myths, the UNP did not perpetrate the July 1983 riots; it just mishandled them. There was no evidence to connect the JVP, as a party, with the anti-Tamil riots of July 1983; nor was it secretly preparing to launch an armed struggle to overthrow the state or the UNP. On the contrary, the JVP was comfortably settling into the political mainstream and beginning to enjoy the fruits of high profile electoral politics. They did not willingly or voluntarily leave the mainstream; they were forced out of it by the Jayewardene regime”. Tisaranee Gunasekara (1999): Insurrectionary Violence in Sri Lanka: The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna Insurgencies of 1971 and 1987-1989, Ethnic Studies Report, ICES, Vol. XVII, No. 1, January 1999.
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