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Gunaratne's Panukarapitiya home and set up an 'ambush trap' to apprehend insurgents entering the house. Under this, 7 soldiers were hiding in the house and were ready to arrest those who came to the house. Wijeratne arrived at this house at 11 am on December 31, 1989 to meet Member of the Political Bureau Shantha Bandara. Later he was captured by the ambushed special police team. He was later taken to the Kuruwita Army camp where he confessed that he was Lalith Wijeratne after being tortured. Among those who questioned Wijeratne at the Kuruwita Army Camp on the afternoon of December 31, 1989 was Colonel Chulabhaya Lakshman Wijeyeratne, then Chief Commander of the Uva Province.
229:, Sri Lanka as the third child in the family. His father Vijalath Pathirannahelage Piyasena was born on 25 December 1924. His mother Kaluarachchige Rosalyn Nona was born on 18 December 1928 in Kehelle. His father worked as a farmer his mother made matchsticks for the Maltune Match Factory at the Thambakar Trade Center in Divulapitiya and sold them to the factory. Lalith had one elder sister Indrani (born 1953), one elder brother Nimal (born 1956), one younger brother, Ranjith (born 3 April 1960) and one younger sister Vasantha (born 1961).
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Peradeniya in 1983. A deadly hunger strike was launched in 1983 against it and
Professor Dias was later taken hostage. Finally the university was closed. The university was reopened with 117 students suspended including Wijerathna. At the same time, the legal student councils in Sri Lankan universities were banned by the government and the University Police was established at the Peradeniya University premises.
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Central Committee. Lalith, who was the General Secretary of the Socialist Students' Union, was arrested by the Divulapitiya Police in early 1983 and the Meetiyagoda Police on May 31, 1987. Lalith last came home in August 1987 in a 14 Sri Lancer wagon. He also used a green CM125 motorcycle.
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January 1, 1990, Ops Combine officers brought Wijeratne in a Defender vehicle with Ratnapura District Armed Secretary Percy Weerasinghe alias Ilukkumbura alias Ilukkumbura alias Ravi and Ratnapura District Zonal Leader Gunaratne at the University of Colombo 7 Came. They were brought before
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contested the presidential election, Wijerathna supported his campaign. Even though he was a skillful organizer and a charismatic leader, Wijeratha was little known outside the party. Lalith was elected to the
Political Bureau in 1988 from the National Committee of the JVP Socialist Students Union
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He joined the JVP in 1978 after school through his mother's brother
Rassapanage Jayasinghe, an English teacher at Hunumulla Maha Vidyalaya in Kehelella, Divulapitiya. His son Poojitha Jayasinghe was also arrested during the Second insurgency and the house was set on fire by paramilitary forces on
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Piyasisri Fernando. However, the government forces managed to capture Saman Piyasisri and subsequently killed him on 27 December 1989. After the capture of Saman Piyasiri, the leadership of the JVP was transferred to Lalith Wijerathna. He serve as the leader of the JVP for just six months.
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Younger brother Ranjith Wijerathna worked as a Line Operator at the Vivian Mills Garment Factory in Kapuwatta. He was killed in Colombo on November 21, 1989 after being arrested by the police. At the time of Ranjith's assassination, his wife Sriyani was a mother of two.
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