One of us becomes a party leader!
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Sunday, 02 February 2014The relationship between Anura Dissanayake and us is nearly 30 years old. During the 87-90 terror period, he was involved in politics along with us, shoulder-to-shoulder. He was also a leading figure in the Students for Human Rights (SHR), launched by us on the guidance of the late president’s counsel Nimal Senanayake. Anura blossomed up in Peradeniya.
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We lost track of him after the second rising of the JVP in 87-89 was repressed with iron arms. To this year, it is 25 years since Gemunu, Collure and Nishmi left us. A few of those who had been with us then, live secluded lives in Australia today. Anura is a character cast in iron. It cannot be repressed by blood or iron. It is remarkable that one of us has come to be the leader of the party around which we had gathered together, when 25 years elapse since our comrades in the battlefront had laid down their lives.
It is our heartiest wish to see that the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna raises a voice under the leadership of Anura, our companion then, on behalf of the hundreds of thousands oppressed people! That is the best tribute that can be paid to our comrades who had sacrificed their lives for humankind. Anura wewill gaze at you.
We lost track of him after the second rising of the JVP in 87-89 was repressed with iron arms. To this year, it is 25 years since Gemunu, Collure and Nishmi left us. A few of those who had been with us then, live secluded lives in Australia today. Anura is a character cast in iron. It cannot be repressed by blood or iron. It is remarkable that one of us has come to be the leader of the party around which we had gathered together, when 25 years elapse since our comrades in the battlefront had laid down their lives.
It is our heartiest wish to see that the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna raises a voice under the leadership of Anura, our companion then, on behalf of the hundreds of thousands oppressed people! That is the best tribute that can be paid to our comrades who had sacrificed their lives for humankind. Anura wewill gaze at you.
