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'''Batalanda detention center''' was an alleged detention center used to torture and exterminate members of the janatha vimukthi peramuna ([[Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna|JVP]]) during [[1987–89 JVP insurrection|JVP uprising of 1988–1989]] who launched a second armed revolt against an elected government then led by President [[Ranasinghe Premadasa]] Unlike the previous open uprising the JVP relied on assassinations of important religious and political figures, subversion, and terror attacks. The government replied brutally showing no mercy and the government has been accused of using detention camps in several places including Batalanda to quell the JVP uprising. These were said to be run by anti-subversive units of the police who were tasked with destroying rebels <ref name="wsws">{{cite web|url=https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2000/08/sri-a26.html|publisher=wsws.org|title=Sri Lankan government exploits allegations of murder and torture against opposition - World Socialist Web Site|accessdate=11 November 2016}}</ref><ref>[http://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/04234216454178AFC12576B20038FF61-Full_Report.pdf Commissions of inquiry in Sri Lanka]</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.tchr.net/civil_and_pol_jvp_army_deserters.htm|title=Atrocities of Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) or|website=www.tchr.net|accessdate=28 September 2016}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.sundayobserver.lk/2014/06/01/pol03.asp|title=Anura Kumara apologises in London for JVP's 1988-89 terror|website=www.sundayobserver.lk|accessdate=28 September 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161001182426/http://www.sundayobserver.lk/2014/06/01/pol03.asp|archive-date=1 October 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.onlanka.com/news/jvp-says-matale-mass-grave-has-remains-of-200-torture-victims.html|title=JVP says Matale mass grave has remains of 200 torture victims ::. Latest Sri Lanka News|date=6 February 2013|language=en-US|accessdate=28 September 2016}}</ref> It is believed that nearly 5,000-10,000 members of JVP activists were brutally tortured and killed in this camp.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.lankanewsweb.today/english/archives/4609|title=Demons of Batalanda: Who was behind them? - LNW Today|website=www.lankanewsweb.today|accessdate=28 September 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161002064124/http://www.lankanewsweb.today/english/archives/4609|archive-date=2 October 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Ranil Wickremesinghe]] is accused of being the political authority of the alleged detention center. Batalanda commission was appointed by the government of [[Chandrika Kumaratunga]] to look into the violations of human rights and crimes committed at Batalanda torture and detention center. In its report the commission recommended the government to take legal action against then opposition leader Ranil Wickremesinghe and to strip him of his civic rights, which would have made him ineligible to run for elections. However no legal action was taken against him by any government to date and several who were arrested for their involvement in alleged killings have been revealed to be from organizations such as the [[Sri Lanka Mahajana Pakshaya|Sri Lanka Mahajana Party]] which was created by Kumaratunge and [[Vijaya Kumaranatunga|her husband]] who himself was assassinated .<ref>{{cite web|title=Vijaya assassination: Politics kills police professionalism|url=http://www.sundaytimes.lk/120212/News/nws_28.html}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Lalith Athulathmudali's Assassination –Fact or Fiction?|url=http://www.ceylontoday.lk/print20170401CT20170630.php?id=20301}}</ref><br />
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