{"id":73467,"date":"2013-02-13T01:28:13","date_gmt":"2013-02-13T01:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=73467"},"modified":"2013-02-19T01:31:09","modified_gmt":"2013-02-19T01:31:09","slug":"veteran-sri-lankan-leftist-lionel-bopage-on-the-national-question-class-and-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/veteran-sri-lankan-leftist-lionel-bopage-on-the-national-question-class-and-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"Veteran Sri Lankan Leftist Lionel Bopage On The National Question, Class And Revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Lionel+Bopage&amp;x=9&amp;y=6\">Lionel Bopage<\/a><\/strong>, 68, has jailed twice and tortured for his roll as a former leader of a mass liberation movement in Sri Lanka in the 1970s and 1980s, called the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=JVP&amp;x=14&amp;y=3\">Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna<\/a><\/span> (People&#8217;s Liberation Front). He rose to the position of general secretary of the JVP but resigned from the group in 1984 over a number of differences, including his principled support for the right of national self-determination for the Tamil people. He was eventually forced into political exile together with his wife, Chitra. They now live in Melbourne, Australia, where they continue to be outspoken defenders of human rights and social justice.<\/p>\n<p><em>Green Left Weekly<\/em>\u00a0asked Bopage to reflect on his political experiences in liberation struggle in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in the\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenleft.org.au\/node\/53302\">Green Left Weekly<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":73468,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,3402],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-editors-choice"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Veteran Sri Lankan Leftist Lionel Bopage On The National Question, Class And Revolution - 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