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Premadasa's peace initiatives
Sunday Island
|July 13, 2025
Premadasa used the occasion of his inaugural presidential address in Kandy on the 2nd of January 1989, to call upon all those outside the democratic process to join the mainstream.
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He addressed himself to both militant groups, the JVP and the LTTE and said he was "available for any discussion in order to arrive at constructive solutions".
He moved early to placate the JVP. Against the wishes of his Cabinet and security advisors, he lifted the countrywide emergency on January 12th, and ordered the release of some 1800 JVP cadres who were in detention.
This story is from the July 13, 2025 edition of Sunday Island.
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