- Pieter Keuneman
Peter Keuneman was a prominent
Marxist member of Parliament and a leading figure in theLanka Sama Samaja Party (LSSP).Early life
He had studied at Royal College and
Pembroke College, Cambridge where be became acommunist , President of theCambridge Union and editor of the student magazine "Granta ". He was the son of a Dutch Burgher Supreme Court Justice in Sri Lanka. At Cambridge he met his wife,Hedi Stadlen who became one of the leadingEuropean Radicals in Sri Lanka .Political career
In the LSSP, he became associated with a tendency that supported the views of
Joseph Stalin and eventually became theCommunist Party of Ceylon .During the 1970s, he became minister of housing and local government. He introduced a controversial floor area limit of 90 square metres on all new private houses.
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Communist Party of Sri Lanka References
External links
* [http://www.samasamaja.org/ Official Website of Lanka Sama Samaja Party (LSSP)]
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