Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna
The Janathā Vimukthi Peramuṇa ( Sinhala : ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණ; German: People's Liberation Front; JVP for short ) is a national- Marxist , communist party in Sri Lanka .
The party was instrumental in two armed uprisings in Sri Lanka, 1971 and 1987-1989. The aim was to establish a communist society. At the beginning of the 1990s, the party renounced violence and has practiced party politics ever since. In 1994 she took part in a parliamentary election for the first time. Since then she has been consistently represented in the Sri Lankan parliament . Their stronghold is in the Sinhalese south of Sri Lanka.
In the 2005 presidential elections, the party supported the socialist candidate Mahinda Rajapaksa and was consequently involved in his government as a coalition partner. However, the alliance broke up again relatively soon. The JVP accused the president of corruption and nepotism. They also called for an even tougher pace in the fight against the Tamil rebels of the LTTE . The party then broke up. Its most prominent member, Wimal Weerawansa , founded its own party and continued to support President Rajapaksa’s policies.
In the 2010 presidential elections, the party supported incumbent President Rajapaksa’s rival candidate, former Army General Sarath Fonseka . However, Fonseka clearly lost the election. He then accused the government of electoral fraud and did not recognize the result. A short time later he was arrested by the government. In cooperation with the JVP, he was accused of coup plans. In the early parliamentary elections in 2010 , the JVP only got around 5% and 7 seats in parliament. General Fonseka was also elected to parliament from pre-trial detention.
Critics accuse the JVP of being Sinhala chauvinist and still practicing violence as part of the political struggle. In addition, the party is racist and anti- Tamil referred to, among others, the government made it for the anti-Tamil pogrom in Sri Lanka in 1983 "in the so-called black July " ( Black July responsible).
Previous chair
- Rohana Wijeweera (party founder and its chairman until his death on November 13, 1989)
- Somawansa Amarasinghe (from 1990 until his resignation in February 2014)
- Anura Kumara Dissanayake (since February 2, 2014)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ The JVP uprisings in 1971 and the late 1980s . Sri Lanka Info website.
- ↑ Large majority for Rajapaksa . NZZ Online news site.
- ^ The 2nd JVP uprising . Sri Lanka Guardian. (English)
- ↑ JVP New Leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake. Asian Mirror, February 2, 2014, accessed November 13, 2019 .