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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{short description|Former paramilitary group in Sri Lanka}}<br />
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{{Infobox Militant organization<br />
| name = Black Cats<br />
| allegiance = {{flagicon|Sri Lanka}} [[United National Party]]<br />
| opponents = {{flagicon image|Communist Hammer and Sickle flag.svg}} [[Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna|JVP]]<br>[[Image:South_Asian_Communist_Banner.svg|22px]] [[Communist Party of Sri Lanka|CPSL]]<br />
| ideology = [[Anti-Communism]]<br />
|active = 1989–1993<br />
|country= {{flagicon|Sri Lanka}} [[Sri Lanka]]<br />
}}<br />
The '''Black Cat group,''' or the '''Black Cats,''' was a pro-[[United National Party|UNP]] [[paramilitary]] organization in [[Sri Lanka]]. <ref name = 'p240'>{{Cite book|title=Sri Lanka: The Years of Terror 1987–1989|author=C.A Chandraprema|year=2001|page=240}}</ref><ref name = AIUK>{{Cite book |title=Sri Lanka: Extrajudicial Executions, 'Disappearances' and Torture, 1987 to 1990 |publisher=[[Amnesty International]] | date=September 1990 | location=United Kingdom | pages=29–30 | isbn=0862101867 | url=https://www.amnesty.org/download/Documents/200000/asa370211990eng.pdf | access-date=12 August 2018}}</ref> The Black Cats were initially formed following the electoral victory of [[Ranasinghe Premadasa]]. It was the predominant [[anti-communist]] paramilitary of the [[United National Party]].<ref name=ypz>{{Cite book|title=Human rights in developing nations|page=357}}</ref><ref>Uyangoda. 1993.</ref><ref>Hyndman, Patricia, and Jeannine Guthrie. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=uiNKMo2_ooEC&pg=PA42 Human rights accountability in Sri Lanka: May 31, 1992]''. New York, NY u.a: Human Rights Watch, 1992. p. 42</ref><br />
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The group was not publicly recognized until the late 1989. It was one of the 13 death squads sponsored by the [[Sri Lankan government]] to suppress opposition during the period of the [[1987–1989 JVP insurrection|1987–1989 JVP insurgency]].<ref name=ypz/><ref>{{Cite book|title=Asian Bulletin, Volume 7, Issue 7 – Volume 12, Issue 12|year=1987<!--|published=2006-->}}</ref><br />
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==Suppression of the press==<br />
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The Black Cat group killed 830 politicians who were involved in the anti-UNP newspaper of the [[Communist Party of Sri Lanka]]. These killings were only partially counted by the government due to the ongoing [[Second JVP insurrection|JVP insurgency]].<ref>CartoonistsRights. ''[http://www.cartoonistsrights.org/cartoonists_rights_free_speech.php?id=40 Sri Lanka] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120919195217/http://www.cartoonistsrights.org/cartoonists_rights_free_speech.php?id=40 |date=September 19, 2012 }}''</ref><br />
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==Eppawela attack==<br />
The group was found guilty of a massacre in [[Eppawela]], killing suspected JVP members and other civilians. This was said to be a retaliation attack.<ref>[https://www.amnesty.org/download/Documents/200000/asa370201990en.pdf Sri Lanka brief: A human rights crisis] (1990)</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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[[Category:United National Party]] <br />
[[Category:1987–1989 JVP insurrection]] <br />
[[Category:Guerrilla organizations]]<br />
[[Category:Paramilitary organisations based in Sri Lanka]]<br />
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