{"id":46767,"date":"2015-08-10T11:41:17","date_gmt":"2015-08-10T17:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=46767"},"modified":"2015-08-10T04:19:55","modified_gmt":"2015-08-10T11:19:55","slug":"jvp-insurgency-ii-death-strikes-724-bhikkus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/08\/10\/jvp-insurgency-ii-death-strikes-724-bhikkus\/","title":{"rendered":"JVP insurgency II: death strikes 724 bhikkus"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Dharman Wickremaratne<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n

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\"Dharman<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>After the JVP was proscribed following Black July 1983, the party\u2019s strength by early 1987 was based entirely on radical young trade union workers and university students among other youth opposed to Tamil separatism. They were represented by the Janatha Satan Peramuna (People\u2019s Militant Front) which was formed at market complex, Dematagoda on June 8, 1986. The Mawbima Surakeemay Viyaparaya (Movement for the Protection of the Motherland) was launched at Patanagara Vihara, Dematagoda on July 26, 1986 to oppose proposals for provincial councils.During the second insurgency JVP began to rely more on radical bhikkus after Politburo member D.M. Ananda took over the bhikku section in February 1986.\u00a0 By that time he was JVP Political Secretary in the Western and Sabaragamuwa Provinces and was also leading the students\u2019 women\u2019s and bhikku fronts of the party. He became the JVP\u2019s unofficial leader at the end of the second insurgency.<\/p>\n

\"dha02.\"Some of the chief Buddhist monks among 41 bhikkus the JVP assassinated (from left): (1)Ven. Poddaramulle Pemaloka Chief Sanghanayake of Thotamuna, Kalutara (2) well-known preacher Ven Kotikawatte Saddhatissa, (3) Ven.Welthota Pannadassi of Matara and Ven. Beligalle Mahinda, Chief Incumbent of Purana Viharaya, Middeniya.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Born at Wariyapola in 1954\u00a0 Dissanayake Mudiyanselage Nandasena alias D.M. Ananda was the father of one child. An arts gradute of the Peradeniya University in 1980 he was at one time a Buddhist monk by the name of Ven. Narada. His activities in the JVP bhikku section were coordinated by Upali Gamage alias Mahanama an actvist in the party\u2019s cultural section. A former bhikku by the name of Ven.Premananda of the Peradeniya University\u2019s Arts Faculty, Gamage later disrobed and became a full time JVP activist.<\/p>\n

By the time of the JVP\u2019s second insurgency its all organisations were under party leader Rohana Wijeweera and the Politburo which was directly responsible for propaganda, finance, educational, armed operations (Deshapremi Janatha Vyapaaraya), workers, youth, women, students and bhikkus who were involved with the party. \u00a0\u00a0The Politburo monitored the activities of 19 districts in the Uva, Eastern, Southern, Western, Sabaragamuwa, Central and North-Central Provinces under the JVP\u2019s Central Committee.<\/p>\n

\"dha03.\"<\/a>Two of the 681 bhikkus killed by the Government\u2019s official and unofficial armed groups (from left): Ven. Ransegoda Dhammaloka and Ven. Walallawita Chandrasiri<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

JVP bhikkus organized themselves via the Socialist Bhikku Union.\u00a0 Even during the first insurgency of April 1971 the JVP was able to address a considerable number of bhikkus.\u00a0 The number of bhikkus killed during that insurrection was nearly 50 while hundreds were arrested.\u00a0 The Socialist Bhikku Union worked at national committee, district committee and electoral levels and by 1987 their activists numbered nearly 524.\u00a0 In general about 750 bhikkus countrywide extended their support while thousands of other bhikkus indirectly supported the JVP.\u00a0 Before the party was banned in 1983, about 550 bhikkus participated in that year\u2019s May Day rally under the banner of the Socialist Bhikku Union.<\/p>\n

By 1986 there were 8.582 temples which had 14,681 fully ordained monks, according to Government statistics.\u00a0 The number of novice monks was 16,741.\u00a0 All these bhikkus numbering 31,422 belonged 32 recognized chapters under Sri Lanka\u2019s three main Buddhist Sects.<\/p>\n

\"dha04.\"<\/a>Fr. Michael Paul Rodrigo of \u2018Subasetha\u2019 Buttala and Pastor Lionel Jayasinghe of Lanka Dewa Sabhawa, Tissamaharama<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

By the time of the second JVP insurgency the Socialist Bhikku Union was a clandestine organisation. It became affiliated to the Deshapremi Janatha Vyapaaraya under the name Kudapola Balaklava (in memory of Ven. Kudapola executed by the British during the Matale rebellion of 1848).\u00a0 The overt activities of JVP bhikkus during 1985 to 1989 were confined to the Manawa Hithawaadi Bhikku Sangamaya (formed at Kelaniya University after the 1983 JVP proscription) and the Inter University Bhikku Federation formed at the Kelaniya University on March 4, 1985.<\/p>\n

These bhikkus had many organisational and strategical advantages in working closely with JVP activists in the second inurgency. Bhikkus who were graduates had become a kind of intellectual class in society. During this period these bhikkus played a leading role in the cultural and human rights areas.\u00a0 The Sinhala monthly \u2018Vinivida\u2019 which the Manawa Hithawaadi Bhikku Sangamaya launched became very popular during 1987-88 and on one occasion 62,000 copies of a single issue were sold.<\/p>\n

\"dha05.\"<\/a>Grief stricken patrons after the assassination on August 29, 1989 of Ven. Pituwala Dharmakeerthi alias Lenin Haamuduruwo who was one of the leading bhikkus behind the Mawbima Surakeemay Vyapaaraya (Movement for the Protection of the Motherland) <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The bhikkus who gave leadership to the JVP\u2019s Socialist Bhikku Union towards the end of 1980 were the Ven. Balaharuwe Soma Convener of the Inter University Bhikku Federation, Ven. Tharaperiye Rathanajothi Secretary of the Deshapremi Students Movement, Ven. Egodabedde Gunasiri of the Manawa Hithawaadi Bhikku Sangamaya and the Ven. Thalakolawewa Chandraratna, President of the Eksath Bhikku Sangamaya.<\/p>\n

Born in Balaharuwa, Matara Ven. Soma was a second year arts student of the Kelaniya University.\u00a0 Ven. Tharaperiye Rathanajothi, also born in Matara, was a second year student of the Kelaniya University.<\/p>\n

Among the other Socialist Bhikku Union leaders were Ven. Mangala and Ven. Ananda of the Colombo University and Ven. Uduwela Dhammajothi of the Kelaniya University. The security forces killed several activists of the Socialist Bhikku Union.\u00a0 The victims included Ven. Gunasiri of Badulla whose body was found in Badulla. Another monk, Ven. Sapugolle Indrasiri swam to safety by jumping into a river when he was about to be executed near the big bridge on No.5 road following his arrest at Kurunegala.<\/p>\n

\"dha06.\"<\/a>Left: Ven. Beruwala Sobhitha and Ven. Piyarathana of the Kawududoowa Temple, Wadduwa standing near the body of the Ven. Pohoddaramulle Pemaloka kept at the Kalutara Town Hall on December 21, 1988\u00a0 Right: The body of Rev. Lionel Jayasinghe kept at the Debaawewa Church for the public to pay their last respects.\u00a0 <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Before the end of the second insurgency Ven. Thalakolawewa Chandraratana, a Socialist Bhikku Union leader after being arrested at Ratnapura in October 1989 appealed to JVP university students and militant bhikkus over TV to surrender to the Government.\u00a0 Later, pardoned by the Premadasa Governmen he was able to go Japan where he disrobed. Afer his mother passed away he attanded her \u2018pinkama\u2019 in Sri Lanka. He is a father of two children today. He was born in Nikaweratiya as the son of a farmer.<\/p>\n

After the second JVP insurgency was crushed 12 surviving bhikkus of Socialist Bhikku Union\u2019s National Committee met at the Kehelwathugoda Temple, Yakkala on December 26 and 27, 1989.\u00a0 On the 27th at 11.00 p.m.\u00a0 a police team led by HQI Gampaha Gamini Silva came to the temple and arrested 11 bhikkus. One of them escaped and waited in hiding for two days in the Attanagalu Oya. Thereafter in the morning of December 29 he tried to commit suicide by jumping before an oncoming train near the Daralau Oya railway station between Veyangoda and Gampaha but was saved by villagers who sent him safely to his hometown.\u00a0 All other the bhikkus taken into custody \u2013 expect four \u2013 were later released.\u00a0 It is said that the four had been subsequently killed.<\/p>\n

\"dha07.\"<\/a><\/p>\n

JVP Politburo member D.M. Ananda who was in charge of the party\u2019s bhikku section, Upali Gamage alias Mahanama of the JVP\u2019s Culture Section,\u00a0 Ven. Tharaperiye Rathanajothi Secretary of the Deshapremi Student Movement and Ven. Balaharuwe Soma, Convener of the Inter University Students Council.Ananda and Mahanama who had already disrobed while Rathanajothi and Balaharuwe Soma disrobed and sought asylum in Japan and France after the insurgency was crushed<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Among those released were Balaharuwe Soma, Egodabedde Gunasiri and Tharaperiye Rathanajothi.\u00a0 This writer saw Balaharuwe Soma at Horawapathana on December 29th<\/sup> at 2.00 p.m. Later he disrobed and went to France. Today he is a father of three. He first came into prominence when he led the successful struggle demanding a hostel for 540 university bhikkus and occupied the university building on March 4, 1987.\u00a0 It was also the beginning of the Inter University Students Federation.<\/p>\n

Tharaperiye Rathanajothi now lives in Japan after disrobing.\u00a0 This writer met Egodabedde Gunasiri by chance inside a Thai airlines plane which was about to take off on January 23, 1990. After arriving in Thailand to attend an environmental semiar organised by UN Enviromental Programme I met Gunasiri\u2019s request to locate for him Thai Buddhist leader Sulak Sivaraksha\u2019s residence where he (Gunasiri) was going to stay temporarily. Later he disrobed and now lives in Australia. He is the father of two children.<\/p>\n

\"dha08.\"<\/a>A sketch of how bhikkus were tortured by the \u2018Dharmachakra\u2019 method.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Ven.Pituwala Dhammakeerthi – a strong JVP Socialist Bhikku Union actvist \u2013 was popularly called Lenin Haamuduruwo.\u00a0 A graduate who lost his job in the July 1980 General Strike, he was brutally killed after being abducted on August 29, 1989. Another bhikku actvist was Ven. Hikkaduwe Gunasiri, a third year student of the Jayawardenapura University and President of the University Bhikku Union. He was residing at Kotiyagala Kanda in the Agalawatte Electorate when the Mirihana Police arrested him and detained him at the Pelawatte and Boossa camps. Later he disrobed and became a Pradeshiya Sabha member under the name Hikkaduwe Dasanayake.\u00a0 Today he is a teacher.<\/p>\n

\"dha09.\"<\/a><\/p>\n

A sketch of how bhikkus were tortured after they were taken into custody<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

On September 7, 1988 security forces raided Gothami Vihara and seized all property belonging to the Manawa Hithawadi bhikku organisation. Eight bhikkus were arrested and questioned at length but were subsequently released following a request the UK-based Amnesty International made to the Sri Lanka Government.\u00a0 The then Colombo Mayor Ratnasiri Rajapaksa coordinated these activities.\u00a0 It was Ven. Undugoda Soratha who published the journal \u2018Vinivida\u2019 on the JVP\u2019s behalf assisted by several others including Ven. Dikwelle Soratha, an undergraduate of the Jayewardenepura University.\u00a0 The artist was Bandara.\u00a0\u00a0 Ven. Kongasdeniye Ananda who was at one time \u2018Vinivida\u2019 Associate Editor fled to France to escape the reign of terror.\u00a0 Ven. Mandawala Pannawansa now resides in the USA.\u00a0 Ven. Bhathiyagammana Uttarananda currently leads a meditative life at a hermitage in Nikaweratiya.<\/p>\n

The Socialist Bhikku Union\u2019s central publication was \u2018Vimukti Maga\u2019 (Path to Liberation) edited supposedly by Ven. Dharmakeerthi.\u00a0 But the actual and unseen editor was Professor W.S. Karunaratne.\u00a0 The \u2018liberation sermons\u2019 which the union prepared became very popular. These were based on Seehanada Sutra, Kootadantha Sutra and Anganna Sutra which Bhikku Union\u2019s members used in a subtle way to popularize the JVP ideology. (The lay patrons of a Buddhist Temple in Kegalle had complained to the police against one of these so-called liberation sermons).<\/p>\n

\"Sri<\/a>

Sri Lanka. Monk seated on the ground surrounded by tear gas. Pettah bus stand, Colombo, 28th July 1987. Protest at the signing of the Indo Lanka Peace Accord between India and Sri Lanka.<\/p><\/div>\n

Samanera Bhikku, Ven. Kegalle Vimala the only person who fearlessly continued his protest during the attacks on 20,000 demonstrating against the Indo-Lanka Accord on July 28, 1987 <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Workshops for this purpose were held at seven places including the Paragoda Raja Maha Vihara.\u00a0 The credit for this goes primarily to Ven. Dr. Wilegoda Ariyadeva who worked for the party from 1969 to 1983 when the JVP was banned.\u00a0 (Until recently he worked with several people\u2019s organizations)<\/p>\n

The country began heading towards a state of anarchy as a result of the UNP Government\u2019s brutal repressive measures versus JVP terrorism. The reign of terror led to the government replacing normal law with the law of the jungle.\u00a0 Progressive bhikkus including Socialist Bhikkus Union members were hunted down.\u00a0 Some of the arrested monks were killed and their bodies burnt on tyre pyres.\u00a0 The \u2018Dharma Chakra\u2019 torture method was specially meant for bhikkus.\u00a0 Many were tortured to death. Some bhikkus, no longer able to bear the repression, disrobed.<\/p>\n

\"dha12\"<\/a>Ven. Dr. Wilegoda Ariyadewa in a discussion with bhikku activists of the Kelaniya University in late 1990 on those who were killed and who dissappeared after the defeat of the second insurgency.\u00a0 <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

What the JVP did was not to get bhikkus to study the Buddha Dhamma in depth for social progress but to use bhikkus for political purposes to spread the party\u2019s ideology among the people. It led to disastrous consequences. The aim of the Bhikku Union members was to build a new society but the activities of the JVP\u2019s armed wing turned everything upside down.<\/p>\n

Eventually the JVP killed not only those who opposed the party but also bhikkus who supported the UNP and also other Left parties.\u00a0 During the second insurgency, from 1986 to 1990 the JVP\u2019s armed wing, the Deshapremi Janatha Vyapaaraya killed 41 Buddhist monks and two Christian priests.\u00a0\u00a0 The number of Buddhist monks killed by the Government\u2019s official and unofficial armed groups was 681.\u00a0 Accordingly the total number of members of the clergy killed during the JVP\u2019s second insurgency was 724 out of which 722 were bhikkus.<\/p>\n

\"dha13\"<\/a>From left: University Bhikku Leaders Ven. Athureliye Rathana (Peradeniya) Ambalangoda Jayantha Jayamuni who was a JVP assistant leader Badulla during the 1971 insurgency and later joined the Agrcultural Department Peradeniya and Ven. Kalupahana Piyarathana (Kelaniya) after a discussion on the need for a spiritually guided-indigenous political movement.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Among the chief monks the JVP killed were Venerable Pohoddaramulle Pemaloka, Chef Sanghanayake of Thotamuna, Kalutara, well-known preacher Ven. Kotikawatte Saddhatissa, Ven. Welthota Pannadassi of Matara and Ven. Beligalle Mahinda, Chief Incumbent of the Purana Vihara Middeniya.<\/p>\n

Pohoddaramulle Pemaloka, Adviser to the Sri Lanka Mahajana Party, was a bhikku who had fought strongly against the water tax and the sale of lands in Wellassa to foreigners.\u00a0 A graduate of the Jayewardenepura University he lost his teaching job at Kalutara Maha Vidyalaya when he participated in the general strike of July 1980.<\/p>\n

Having entered LSSP politics with Dr. N.M. Perera and Dr. Colvin R. de Silva, he became one of the main speakers supporting SLFP Candidate Hector Kobbekaduwa during the Presidential Election campaigns of 1982.<\/p>\n

Ven Pemaloka supported the Indo-Lanka Accord and was injured when a bomb was thrown at Mahajana Party meeting at Kosgas Handiya.\u00a0 On December 18, 1988 at 7.30 p.m. two insurgents who entered the vihara he was staying at Thalpitiya, Wadduwa shot him on the face and stomach and fled.\u00a0 Ven. Waskaduwe Wimalajeewa, Ven. Pohoddaramulle Nandaloka and Ven. Thalpitiye Wimalasara who in the temple at the time rushed the victim to hospital but he was found dead on admission.\u00a0 The cermation was done in the presence of a massive crowd at the Kalutara Muncipal Grounds after being kept at the Kalutara Town Hall on December 21, 1988 for the public to pay their last respects.\u00a0 Since the shooting had disfigured his face, the upper part of the body was covered.<\/p>\n

In the same year the Deshapremi Janatha Vyapaaraya (DJV) killed Ven. Walambagama Pannasara, Chief Incumbent of the Dharmashrama Vihara, Habarakada, who was also Principal of the Bodhiraja Vihara Dhamma School, Panagoda Army Camp, for ignoring the DJV order not to conduct Dhamma classes for children of military personnel.\u00a0 The insurgents even banned his cremation and the body was kept at the Dharma Hall, Panagoda.\u00a0 On the same day Ariyaratne, a well-known physician of Habarakada was also killed.<\/p>\n

During this time, the DJV had given orders on how to perform the last rites of its victims.\u00a0 No funeral ceremonies were allowed and only a maximum two bhikkus were permitted to perform the religious rites. Pall-bearers were allowed to raise the coffin not more than one foot above the ground.\u00a0 Not more than 10 persons were allowed to attend the funeral.\u00a0 Those who ignored these orders were severely punished.<\/p>\n

Well-known preacher and pro-UNP bhikku, the Ven. Kotikawatte Saddhatissa was killed inside his temple on August 3, 1989.\u00a0 The Ven. Welthota Pannadassi of Matara was killed at the Kithalagamuwa Vihara on August 3, 1989. Ven. Beligalle Mahinda, Chief Incumbent of the Middeniya Purana Vihara was killed on May 28, 1989.\u00a0 The reason for his murder was his refusal to chant seth pirith for a group which was demonstrating against the Provincial Councils Bill.\u00a0 Ven. Reddagoda Saranankara who participated in farmers\u2019 struggles in Kurunegala was also killed.<\/p>\n

Other bhikkus the JVP killed included Ven. Kumbagoda Gnanaloka of Mihintale Vihara (July 11, 1987), Ven. Marmbe Somarathana (December 31, 1988),Ven. Upali of Angunukolapelessa (January 7, 1989), Ven. Hemaloka Nandimithra of Pallama Vihara (August 4, 1989), Ven. Pannatissa of Athurugiriya Vihara (August 13, 1989), Ven. Pannasara of Soragune Raja Maha Vihara (August 20, 1989), Ven. Kirawanagama Pannarama (August 217, 1989), Ven. Pelpola Dharmapala of Jayasumanarama (September 4, 1989), Ven. Muditha of Sudarshanaramaya (Sept.4, 1989), Kahawa Wimalasiri of Bodirajaramaya (Sept.9, 1989) and Ven. Mahanuwara Dhammarakhkhitha of Bambaragala Vihara (September 18, 1989)<\/p>\n

The JVP also killed two Catholic \/ Christian Priests \u2013 Fr. Michael Rodrigo of Subaseth Gedera, Alukawila, Buttala, Kataragama and Pastor. P. Lionel Jayasinghe of the Lanka Deva Sabhawa of Tissamaharama.<\/p>\n

Fr.. Rorigo was killed on November 10, 1987 at 7.30 p.m. for working with groups accused of supporting Tamil separatism.\u00a0 The DJV publication \u2018Wedi Handa\u2019 (Gun Fire) claimed responsibility for his death.\u00a0\u00a0 A past pupil of St.Peter\u2019s College Bambalapitiya, Fr. Rodrigo was known for his work in improving child education and among farmers.\u00a0 He was also accused of being involved in the Kurunegala-based Janatha Sangamaya.<\/p>\n

Pastor Jayasinghe was killed on March 25, 1988 at 8.45 p.m.\u00a0 His wife was Lalani and his son Shamil Emmanuel was only 11 months old when the murder occurred.\u00a0 Started in 1914 the Lanka Dev Sabhawa has 502 branches countrywide. One of its pioneers was Pastor Colton Wickremaratne.\u00a0 In Tissamaarama, the Deva Sabhawa has 1500 members while the number of followers in the whole of Hambantota District is nearly 5000.<\/p>\n

Pastor Jayasinghe came to the vilage of Sedawatte, Tissamaharama in 1980 and engaged in many community actvities with the villagers. The insurgents shot him after entering the house by opening the door.\u00a0 When the serously injured victim managed to enter his room and sit the two assailants stabbed on the chest and again shot him on the face.\u00a0 He was dead on admission to the Tissamaharama Hospital.\u00a0 The body was buried in the General Cemetery, Tissamaharama on March 28, 1988.<\/p>\n

On February 9, 1989 the JVP seized some weapons after attacking the police post at the Sri Dalada Maligawa, Kandy. Two insurgents were killed and three civilians were seriously injured during the attack, which was carried out by 11 rebels.\u00a0 They included five women, Matale Ganga, Nadeeka, Mangalika Lilalnthi and Weerasinghe. The operation was planned by JVP Central Commitee Member Upali Jayaweera alias Manel Mahattaya.\u00a0\u00a0 Some of the attackers who escaped were latger arrested.\u00a0 Two of them had been trained in\u00a0 a jungle hideout in Meemure, Matale.<\/p>\n

As long as people remain religious it is not possible to prevent them from coming under the influence of members of the clergy. As long as the latter maintain close relations with the public it also impossible to prevent them from being drawn into political movements.\u00a0 During the JVP\u2019s second insurgency the first victims were pro-Government Bhikkus whom the JVP killed. Eventually it boomeranged and caused the deaths by the Premadasa Government\u2019s official and unofficial armed groups of not only pro-JVP bhikkus but also other bhikkus who supported progressive movements It was a great tragedy.(The writer is a senior journalist who could be reached at ejournalists@gmail.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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