The Centre for Monitoring Election Violence CMEV has recorded 1162 incidents of election-related violence in the first 28 days of the campaign, 80 of which were reported on October 1, 2000, making it the second most violent day so far. 640 of the 1162 incidents (55.1%) are serious or major ones, and 522 (44.9%) are relatively minor incidents. The reports received on September 29th, September 30th, October 1st and October 2nd — the four most violent days of the campaign by far — include 24 murders, 05 attempted murders, 36 records of hurt, 06 instances of grievous hurt, 67 assaults, 23 acts of threat and intimidation, 05 cases of the misuse of state resources, 01 robbery, and 07 instances of arson.

It is clear that the level of violence has increased both qualitatively and quantitatively in the past week, which has accounted for 41% of all incidents recorded so far, and for 65% of the deaths reported.

Of these 1162 complaints, 517 (44.5%) were reported by supporters of the UNP, 345 (29.7%) by supporters of the PA, 143 (12.3%) by the JVP, and 57 (05.9%) by persons without any known political affiliation. 73 (21.2%) of the PA’s 345 complaints were directed against supporters of the PA itself, the only significant examples of intra-party rivalry recorded in this campaign.