Sri Lanka Armed Forces
In 1989, Sri Lanka Armed Forces launched Operation Combine (Ops Combine). While the revolutionary Rohana Wijeweera was killed, the insurgency never truly ended. The violence escalated when the DJV leader Keerthi Vijayabahu took over. DJV members operated in the LTTE occupied Trincomalee against the Sri Lanka Armed Forces, which attempted to keep the peace within the LTTE. DJV was given weapons by Tamil Militants so that it could operate as a "second" front against the Sri Lankan government. Many smaller anti-government groups gave up the armed struggle, but largest threats persisted, with the DJV continuing to operate as an armed group until December 1989. Ranjan Wijerathna, who played a major role in the Ops Combine, said he was ready to launch a similar counterinsurgency against the LTTE. He was assassinated in 1991. This marked the beginning of the second phase of the Sri Lanka-LTTE conflict, known as the Second Eelam War.