COLOMBO, Sri Lanka--Marxist lawmaker Anura Kumara Dissanayake won Sri Lanka’s presidential election, the Election Commission announced Sunday, after voters rejected the old political guard that ...
His party, the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP), began as a revolutionary Marxist-Leninist movement that led two unsuccessful but bloody uprisings against the Sri Lankan state in the 1970s and 1980s.
Prominent Marxist leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake was inaugurated as Sri Lanka's President on Monday. In a significant political shift, voters decisively rejected the previous government ...