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SRI LANKA 7 MARCH <strong>2012</strong><br />
―The PLOTE originated as an LTTE splinter group, but it was never well armed and its military<br />
activities remained low key. In time, internal feuds and a souring of relations with its Indian<br />
sponsors fuelled the PLOTE's slow demise and the group was largely wiped out by the LTTE in<br />
1986. After the [1987] Indo-Lanka Accord, the PLOTE renounced its armed rebellion against the<br />
Sri Lankan government, but maintains armed cadres to this day.‖ (Jane‘s Sentinel, Country Risk<br />
Assessments, Country <strong>Report</strong>, Sri Lanka, accessed on 3 February <strong>2012</strong>, Internal Affairs, 17<br />
January <strong>2012</strong>) 574<br />
Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP)<br />
Leader: Mahinda Rajapakse<br />
Vice-president: Vinayagamoorthi Muralitharan [aka Karuna Amman]<br />
―The SLFP is the largest party within the ruling UPFA coalition.‖<br />
―In April 2004, a new electoral alliance between the SLFP and the Marxist Janatha Vimukthi<br />
Peramuna (JVP) became the basis of a winning UPFA electoral coalition, which ending the<br />
UNF's 28 months in power. The SLFP prime minister Mahinda Rajapakse became the UPFA's<br />
presidential candidate in the November 2005 elections, with the strong backing of the JVP and<br />
the hard-line Sinhala Buddhist party, the Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU). Rajapakse is a<br />
seasoned SLFP leader, and comes from a very well known political family in the Hambantota<br />
district of southern Sri Lanka - his father was one of the founding members of the SLFP in 1951.<br />
However, Rajapakse's rise to power represents a historic break in the SLFP from the virtually<br />
uninterrupted leadership of the Bandaranaike-Kumaratunga clan. Rajapakse is a popular and<br />
strong personality within the party, and has positioned two of his brothers into commanding<br />
positions of power.‖ (Jane‘s Sentinel, Country Risk Assessments, Country <strong>Report</strong>, Sri Lanka,<br />
accessed on 3 February <strong>2012</strong>, Internal Affairs, 17 January <strong>2012</strong>) 575<br />
Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) http://www.slmc.org.uk/<br />
Leader: Rauff Hakeem<br />
Sri Lanka Muslim Congress officially crossed over to the government side during the<br />
parliamentary sessions of 22 November 2010.<br />
―At the last general election [April 2010] the SLMC contested under the main opposition United<br />
National Party (UNP) led opposition alliance United National Front and won 8 seats.‖ 576<br />
―In the 2011 local elections, the SLMC, previously a constituent party of the UPFA, campaigned<br />
alone in 42 local authorities.‖ (Jane‘s Sentinel, Country Risk Assessments, Country <strong>Report</strong>, Sri<br />
Lanka, accessed on 3 February <strong>2012</strong>, Internal Affairs, 17 January <strong>2012</strong>) 577<br />
Tamileela Makkal Viduthalai Pulikal (Tamil People’s Liberation Party) (TMVP)/Karuna<br />
faction<br />
574 Jane’s Sentinel Country Risk Assessments, Country <strong>Report</strong>, Sri Lanka,<br />
http://sentinel.janes.com/docs/sentinel/SASS_country.jsp?Prod_Name=SASS&Sent_Country=Sri%20La<br />
nka& [subscription only] date accessed 3 February <strong>2012</strong>, Internal Affairs, 17 January <strong>2012</strong><br />
575 Jane’s Sentinel Country Risk Assessments, Country <strong>Report</strong>, Sri Lanka,<br />
http://sentinel.janes.com/docs/sentinel/SASS_country.jsp?Prod_Name=SASS&Sent_Country=Sri%20La<br />
nka& [subscription only] date accessed 3 February <strong>2012</strong>, Internal Affairs, 17 January <strong>2012</strong><br />
576 ColomboPage, Sri Lanka Muslim Congress to sit in the government side from today<br />
http://www.colombopage.com/archive_10C/Nov22_1290416406CH.php date accessed 9 June 2011<br />
577 Jane’s Sentinel Country Risk Assessments, Country <strong>Report</strong>, Sri Lanka,<br />
http://sentinel.janes.com/docs/sentinel/SASS_country.jsp?Prod_Name=SASS&Sent_Country=Sri%20La<br />
nka& [subscription only] date accessed 3 February <strong>2012</strong>, Internal Affairs, 17 January <strong>2012</strong><br />
228 The main text of this <strong>COI</strong> <strong>Report</strong> contains the most up to date publicly available information as at 3 February <strong>2012</strong>.<br />
Further brief information on recent events and reports has been provided in the Latest News section<br />
to 2 <strong>March</strong> <strong>2012</strong>.