Upsurging People's Force Explained

The Upsurging People's Force (Tamil: பொங்கி எழும் மக்கள் படை) is a militant group in Sri Lanka.

The group was unknown until February 2006, when it claimed responsibility for a series of attacks on Sri Lankan army and navy cadre in the north and east of Sri Lanka in December 2005 and January 2006.[1] It claimed responsibility for a series of further claymore mine attacks on soldiers and police officers on 15 April 2006, but has not issued any public communiques since then.

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  1. https://web.archive.org/web/20060511170918/http://acd.iiss.org/armedconflict/mainpages/dsp_ConflictTimeline.asp?ConflictID=174&YearID=961 IISS data base on Sri Lanka