Überblick Parteien in Sri Lanka
This page was last updated on 20 September, 2005
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Political parties and leaders:
ACTC - All Ceylon Tamil Congress [KUMARGURUPARAM];
CWC - Ceylon Workers Congress [Arumugam THONDAMAN];
CP - Communist Party [D. GUNASEKERA];
DUNLF - Democratic United National (Lalith) Front [Shrimani ATULATHMUDALI];
EPDP - Eelam People's Democratic Party [Douglas DEVANANDA];
EPRLF - Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front [Suresh PREMACHANDRAN];
JVP - Janatha Vimukthi Perumuna [Tilvan SILVA];
JHU - National Heritage Party [Tilak KARUNARATNE];
NUA - National Unity Alliance [Ferial ASHRAFF];
PLOTE - People's Liberation Organization of Tamil Eelam [leader NA];
SEP - Socialist Equality Party
SU - Sihala Urumaya [leader NA];
SLFP - Sri Lanka Freedom Party [Chandrika Bandaranaike KUMARATUNGA];
SLMC - Sri Lanka Muslim Congress [Rauff HAKEEM];
SLPF - Sri Lanka Progressive Front [P. Nelson PERERA];
TELO - Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization [SABARATNAM];
TNA - Tamil National Alliance [R. SAMPANTHAN];
TULF - Tamil United Liberation Front [V. ANANDASANGAREE];
UNP - United National Party [Ranil WICKREMASINGHE];
UPF - Up-country People's Front [P. CHANDRASEKARAN];
several ethnic Tamil and Muslim parties, represented in either Parliament or provincial councils
Political pressure groups and leaders:
Buddhist clergy; labor unions;
LTTE - Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam [Velupillai PRABHAKARAN](insurgent group fighting for a separate state);
NMAT - radical chauvinist Sinhalese groups such as the National Movement Against Terrorism;
Sinhalese Buddhist lay groups