[2] Younger brother Ranjith Wijerathna worked as a Line Operator at the Vivian Mills Garment Factory in Kapuwatta.

She has passed the City & Guilds exam and obtained a post of Engineering Assistant in the Japanese Contracting Company at Henanigala Mahaweli Camp.

[2] He joined the JVP in 1978 after school through his mother's brother Rassapanage Jayasinghe, an English teacher at Hunumulla Maha Vidyalaya in Kehelella, Divulapitiya.

His son Poojitha Jayasinghe was also arrested during the Second insurgency and the house was set on fire by paramilitary forces on August 2, 1988.

[2] In mid 1989, after the killing of Sumith Athukorala, a prominent politbureau member of the JVP, Wijerathna was believed to be promoted to the political bureau to fill up the vacant position.

He was the political and military leader of the Polonnaruwa, Anuradhapura and Trincomalee districts in the North Central region during the Second JVP insurrection.

[2] In November 1989, after Rohana Wijeweera's alleged assassination,[3] the remaining leaders including Saman Piyasiri Fernando, Lalilth Wijerathna, Upali Jayaweera, Ranjitham Gunaratnam, Gamini Wijegunasekara and Shantha Bandara tried to regroup.

[2] Meanwhile Gunaratne, the JVP Zonal Armed Leader, was arrested by the security forces at the Ratnapura bus stand on December 29, 1989 at 6 pm, and was taken home and later detained at the Kuruwita Army Camp belonging to the Gemunu Service Brigade.

On the night of December 29, 1989, security forces raided Gunaratne's Panukarapitiya home and set up an 'ambush trap' to apprehend insurgents entering the house.

Among those who questioned Wijeratne at the Kuruwita Army Camp on the afternoon of December 31, 1989 was Colonel Chulabhaya Lakshman Wijeyeratne, then Chief Commander of the Uva Province.

Finally he was killed at the Mattegoda Army Camp on January 4, 1990, and the body was cremated at the Boralesgamuwa Cemetery along with two other rebels.