People's Liberation Front
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The People's Liberation Front can refer to several political groups:
- Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna, the Sri Lankan nationalist Marxist political party.
- Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front, a Sri Lankan political party formed as a militant, Tamil separatist group and now part of the Tamil National Alliance.
- The Eritrean People's Liberation Front (ELF), an armed organization that fought for the independence of Eritrea from Ethiopia.
- The Tigrayan People's Liberation Front (TPLF), a political party in Ethiopia that is the main part of the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front.
- Khmer People's National Liberation Front (KPNLF), a political front organized in 1979 in opposition to the Vietnamese-installed People's Republic of Kampuchea (PRK) regime in Cambodia.
- The Namibia People's Liberation Front, an alliance of moderate political parties in Namibia.
- The term was also used by British Prime Minister Tony Blair in his Prime Minister's Question Time of 3 May 2006 as a shorthand (and mistaken) reference to the political groups "Judean People's Front" or "People's Front of Judea" lampooned in the 1979 film Monty Python's Life of Brian.[1]
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- ^ Parliamentary Debates, House of Commons, May 3, 2006, column 963
