April 1971 JVP Uprising: Not To Make The Same Mistakes
| by Laksiri Fernando
( April 3, 2013, Sydney, Sri Lanka Guardian) It was still Ceylon. The JVP cadres were supposed to attack all possible police stations simultaneously on 5 April night in a bid to trigger a ‘revolution’ but the impatient members in Wellawaya made the attack a day before unintentionally alerting the police and the government. 