Rohana Wijeweera
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Rohana Wijeweera
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Patabendi Don Jinadasa Nandasiri Wijeweera, better known as Rohana Wijeweera, was a Sri Lankan Marxist political activist, revolutionary and the founder of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna. Wijeweera led the party in two unsuccessful insurrections in Sri Lanka, in 1971 and 1987 to 1989. He formed the JVP in 1965, with the intention of replacing the Dominion of Ceylon with a socialist republic. The JVP ideologically supported the Tamil militants, calling it a war for self-determination, but opposed
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Sri Lankan politician and revolutionary
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohana_Wijeweera
date created:
2005-04-20T13:03:19Z
date modified:
2024-09-11T08:12:51Z
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