 In order to win over an alienated population and to prevent a prolonged conflict, Bandaranaike offered amnesties in May and June 1971, and only the top leaders were actually imprisoned.Wijeweera, who was already in detention at the time of the uprising, was given a twenty-year sentence and the JVP was proscribed.Under the six years of emergency rule that followed the uprising, the JVP remained dormant.