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Sri Lankabhimanya Ranasinghe Premadasa (Sinhala: රණසිංහ ප්රේමදාස Raṇasiṃha Premadāsa; Tamil: ரணசிங்க பிரேமதாசா Raṇaciṅka Pirēmatācā; 23 June 1924 – 1 May 1993) was the third President of Sri Lanka from 2 January 1989 until his assassination in 1993.
Ranasinghe Premadasa, the 3rd President of Sri Lanka, was assassinated on 1 May 1993. Premadasa, along with 23 others, were killed in an explosion set off by an LTTE suicide bomber during a May Day rally held in the country's capital of Colombo .
May 2, 1993 · The assassination of President Ranasinghe Premadasa came just a week after the country's leading opposition politician, Lalith Athulathmudali, was gunned down.
A long-time leader in the United National Party, Ranasinghe Premadasa (1924-1993) became the second president of Sri Lanka in 1988. Ranasinghe Premadasa, the ninth prime minister and second president of Sri Lanka, was born on June 23, 1924, in Colombo. He came from a family of modest means.
Dec 21, 1988 · Ranasinghe Premadasa, a poor boy who rose through the inner-city labor movement to the top of a political establishment dominated by aristocrats, was declared the new President of Sri Lanka...
Sri Lankabhimanya Ranasinghe Premadasa ( Sinhala: රණසිංහ ප්රේමදාස Raṇasiṃha Premadāsa; Tamil: ரணசிங்க பிரேமதாசா Raṇaciṅka Pirēmatācā; 23 June 1924 – 1 May 1993) was the third President of Sri Lanka from 2 January 1989 until his assassination in 1993.
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May 2, 1993 · President Ranasinghe Premadasa was assassinated Saturday by a suicide bomber on a bicycle at a May Day rally, bringing a violent end to the career of a man who sought peace for Sri Lanka.
