- Rohana Wijeweera
Patabendi Don Nandasiri Wijeweera or Rohana Wijeweera (
14 July 1943 –13 November 1989 ) was aSri Lanka nMarxist politician and the founding leader of theJanatha Vimukthi Peramuna .cite news|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/sinhala/news/story/2004/11/041110_wijeweera.shtml|title=Wijeweera murder investigation not priority : JVP|publisher=BBC News|date=10 November, 2004] cite web|url=http://www.atimes.com/ind-pak/DE18Df04.html|title=SRI LANKA:THE UNTOLD STORY Chapter 40: Rohana Wijeweera's killing - still a mystery|publisher=Asia Times|date=May 18,2002]Early life
He was born on July 14, 1943 (
Bastille Day ) to a parents of father "Patabendi Don Andris Wijeweera" and mother "Nasi Nona Wickrama Kulutota" who lived in "Kottegoda" a coastel fishing village situated in southernSri Lanka and belong to theKarava caste hierarchy.. He has a younger brother "Ananda" and a younger sister "Chitranie" also lived there.
Wijeweera had his primary education at Goda Uda government school in Kottegoda from 1947 to 1953. In 1954 he entered Goda Uda government senior school to obtain the secondary education and was there until mid 1959. He entered Ambalangoda Dharmashoka college in July 1959 to study GCE - Ordinary Level examination.
In September 1960 he went to
USSR and entered into theLumumba University to study medicine. He completed theRussian language examination within seven and a half months by obtaining a distinction and spent his holidays by travelling through theUSSR and also worked as a agricultural worker at Moldavian Rupublic. He did the medical studies well up to third year and further has done the political economics by obtaining a distinction in 1963. In late 1963 he suffered from illnesses and received medical treatment from a hospital inMoscow but finally he requested a full academic term of medical leave and returned to Sri Lanka.His father was an active member of
Communist Party of Sri Lanka (pro-Russian wing) and very close to Dr.S.A. Wickramasinghe. He was disabled after an attack by the thugs believed to be the members of an opposing political party during the 1947 Parliamentary election campaign for the candidate Premalal Kumarasiri, and he passed away in 1965. [Rohan Gunaratna's SRI LANKA - A LOST REVOLUTION (ISBN-10-9552600049), Chapter 1, pages 1-3]Political career
Wijeweera returned to Sri Lanka without completing the studies and managed to form a new
Marxist political partyJanatha Vimukthi Peramuna or JVP, on the May 14, 1965 after a discussion held in a house at Akmeemana ofGalle district, southern Sri Lanka.cite web|url=http://www.lankalibrary.com/pol/jvp1971.htm|title=A Lost Revolution: The JVP Insurrection 1971|publisher=WWW Virtual Library - Sri Lanka]Further reading
* "SRI LANKA - A LOST REVOLUTION? The Inside Story of the JVP" by Rohan Gunaratna [
* "Insurgency – 1971 : An Account of the April Insurrection in Sri Lanka" by Justice A.C. Alles [] References
External links
* [http://www.jvpsrilanka.com/ Official Website of Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP)]
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