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- She lost vision in her right eye (permanent optic nerve damage) in an assassination attempt, allegedly by the separatist Tamil Tigers, at her final election rally at Colombo Town Hall premises on December 18, 1999.
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In October 1999, Kumaratunga called an early presidential election. [25] She lost vision in her right eye (permanent optic nerve damage) in an assassination attempt, by the Tamil Tigers, at her final election rally at Colombo Town Hall premises on 18 December 1999.
Jun 1, 2013 · His assassination, though, forced Chandrika into exile, living in London and working for the World Institute for Development Economics Research and the United Nations University....
Apr 24, 2024 · Kumaratunga was injured by a bomb in an assassination attempt at an election rally, one of two attacks blamed on the Tamil Tigers (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam), in which more than 30 people were killed.
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Vijaya Kumaratunga was assassinated on February 16, 1988, outside his residence in the presence of Chandrika and their two little children then aged five and seven years. The extremists Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) claimed responsibility for this act.
May 18, 2018 · In 1994, Sri Lankan voters elected Chandrika Kumaratunga (born 1945) as their first female president, partly with the hope that this daughter of two political veterans might be able to end an interminable and bloody ethnic conflict in the Tamil–dominated northern part of the country.
Nov 24, 2018 · After the defeat of Sirimavo Bandaranaike and SLFP in 1978, the party returned to power in 1994 after a gap of seventeen years. Unfortunately, history repeats itself after the assassination of S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike in 1988, her film star husband Vijaya Kumaranatunga was assassinated by the Marxist rebels.
No stranger to violence, Chandrika Kumaratunga has seen both her father and her husband assassinated for their political beliefs. Following S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike's death in September 1959, Chandrika's mother, Sirimavo, assumed power.
