Ravivimal Jayewardene

Ravivimal Jayewardene was a shooter who competed in the English match at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. He was the only child of Sri Lankan President J. R. Jayewardene (1977-89). Ravivimal was educated at Royal College in Colombo and trained as a pilot in the military, later flying for Air Ceylon, and leaving the military as a Captain.

In 1971 Jayewardene was imprisoned briefly for alleged complicity in the JVP insurrection. He then left for Thailand and served as a novice Buddhist monk. He returned to Sri Lanka in 1983 and took over his father’s security operation as the National Security Advisor. He established the Special Task Force (STF), an elite paramilitary unit of the police and created new regiments and the Civil Defense Force.