UNP leaders accused of violent actions against his political enemies. At one point in his four-year tenure, Sri Lanka had a higher percentage of abductions, deaths and disappearances per capita than any other nation in the world, according to international human rights organizations. A European parliamentary delegation estimated that between 1988 and 1990, as many as 60,000 Singhalese boys and men "disappeared" at the hands of the national security forces during Premadasa's efforts to crush a revolutionary group called the People's Liberation Front, and also known by its Sinhalese acronym JVP - Janata Vimukthi Perumuna.
"The government's brutal counter-insurgency campaign was ... characterized by death squad killings, burning bodies left [on] roads as a warning to insurgents, dropping bodies into the sea from helicopters and cremating bodies with no investigation," according to a report by Asia Watch, a human rights group.
"The government's brutal counter-insurgency campaign was ... characterized by death squad killings, burning bodies left [on] roads as a warning to insurgents, dropping bodies into the sea from helicopters and cremating bodies with no investigation," according to a report by Asia Watch, a human rights group.
