Patabendi Don Nandasiri Wijeweera known to the world at large as Rohana Wijeweera was killed twenty five years ago on November 13,1989.The revolutionary leader of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) ...

Officially there have been no eye-witness accounts of the final phase of Rohana Wijeweera has been one authentic account relating to a few hours in Rohana Wijeweera's life prior to his death in the ...

The Appeal Court today (Feb 15) rejected a habeas corpus application filed seeking to produce in court, former JVP leader Rohana Wijeweera who went missing following his arrest in 1989. Appeal Court ...

General Secretary of Devana Parapura (DP) Uvindu Wijeweera said that an overwhelming majority for the National People’s Power (NPP) at the forthcoming parliamentary election could be politically ...

The emergence of a dissident faction within the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) in Sri Lanka in recent months is a further sign of the party’s deep political crisis. The party split in 2008 over ...

On November 13, 1989, the life of Rohana Wijeweera, the leader of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP), met a controversial end. He was killed under circumstances widely regarded as extrajudicial. At ...

COLOMBO: It was 1989. The embers of riots hadn’t died down. Communist insurgency was at its zenith. Their firebrand leader Rohana Wijeweera had been ambushed and killed in Colombo. Far away in the ...