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The People's Liberation Army Support Base in Djibouti is a military base operated by China's People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN), located in Djibouti in the Horn of Africa. It is the PLAN's first overseas military base and was built at a cost of US$590 million. [1]
' People's Liberation Front ', PLF) is a leftist political party in Sri Lanka. [14] The party was formerly a revolutionary movement and was involved in two armed uprisings against the government of Sri Lanka : once in 1971 ( SLFP ), and another in 1987–1989 ( UNP ).
After defeating the insurgency led by the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) in 1971, the Sri Lanka Armed Forces were confronted with a new conflict, this time with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and other Tamil militant groups. The war escalated to the point where India was asked to intervene as a peacekeeping force.
The 1971 Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) insurrection (also known as the 1971 Revolt) was the first of two unsuccessful armed revolts conducted by the communist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) against the socialist United Front Government of Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) under Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike.
The Sri Lankan Civil War began in 1983 following years of racial and political tensions between the Majority Sinhalese and the Minority Tamil people in Sri Lanka. The Indian Peacekeeping Force arrived in 1987 following the Indo-Lanka accord. The JVP opposed the arrival of the IPKF and revolted against the pro-Western J. R. Jayawardene led ...
DPLF was established in 1987. While People's Liberation Organisation of Tamil Eelam was fighting the LTTE and other paramilitary factions in the North, they decided to enter democratic politics and gain power in parliament. Even after their entrance to democratic politics, they would participate in battles such as the 1988 Maldives coup d'etat. [1]
The PPAt was operating as a military arm of the JVP; it raided the Sri Lankan Army camp in Pallekele, John Kotelawela Defense Academy, and the SLAF Katunayake Sri Lanka Air Force base. [4] Similarly, multiple other military arms affiliated to the JVP carried out attacks under the orders of the Joint Command of the PPAt. [ 5 ]
Deshapremi Janatha Vyaparaya (abbreviated as DJV) (දේශප්රේමී ජනතා ව්යාපාරය; Patriotic People's Movement) [4] was a militant organisation in Sri Lanka. It was widely considered to be the military branch of the Marxist–Leninist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna and had been designated as a terrorist ...