{"id":148655,"date":"2025-03-22T16:18:27","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T23:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=148655"},"modified":"2025-03-22T16:18:27","modified_gmt":"2025-03-22T23:18:27","slug":"sjb-tables-in-parliament-list-of-unpers-killed-by-jvp-in-late-1980s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2025\/03\/22\/sjb-tables-in-parliament-list-of-unpers-killed-by-jvp-in-late-1980s\/","title":{"rendered":"SJB tables in Parliament list of UNPers killed by JVP in late 1980s"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Island<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Matale Dirstrict SJB MP Rohini Kumari Wijerathna yesterday&nbsp;tabled&nbsp;a list in Parliament naming 1,300 members, leaders, trade unionists, and activists of the UNP, who were allegedly assassinated by the JVP. The list was submitted during a parliamentary session as part of the government\u2019s ongoing effort to document victims of political violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Along with the names of the victims, MP Wijerathna also introduced over 900 family members of the&nbsp;alleged victims,&nbsp;providing further context to the extent of the violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking during the session, MP Wijerathna stated, Child soldiers were recruited by the JVP even before the LTTE. \u2018Kantale Bonikki,\u2019 a 13-year-old child was used to murder a 70-year-old female UNP supporter.\u201d She accused the JVP of using children to kill numerous UNP members during the JVP\u2019s second insurgency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The MP said that names not included in the current list would be submitted during the upcoming Batalanda Debate\u201d in April.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MP Wijerathna invited the public, via her Facebook page to submit further details on family members affected by political violence to ensure their inclusion in the extended record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Island Matale Dirstrict SJB MP Rohini Kumari Wijerathna yesterday&nbsp;tabled&nbsp;a list in Parliament naming 1,300 members, leaders, trade unionists, and activists of the UNP, who were allegedly assassinated by the JVP. The list was submitted during a parliamentary session as part of the government\u2019s ongoing effort to document victims of political violence. Along with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crimes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}