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May 18, 2018 · A New York Times Magazine profile by Celia W. Dugger repeated a common aphorism in modern–day Colombo, Sri Lanka 's capital city, which theorizes "that Kumaratunga's father planted the seeds of Sri Lanka's ethnic conflict, that her mother nurtured them and that she has been left to reap the bitter harvest."
Apr 24, 2024 · Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga is a member of a prominent Sri Lankan political family, who was the first woman to serve as the country’s president (1994–2005). Chandrika Bandaranaike was the daughter of two former prime ministers. Her father was S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike, founder of the socialist.
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Chandrika Kumaratunga. Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga (b. June 29, 1945) was the fifth President (and fourth to hold the office as Executive president) of Sri Lanka (November 12, 1994 – November 19, 2005). She was the leader of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party until the end of 2005. She was Sri Lanka's first female president winning two ...
Chandrika Kumaratunga took up her dynastic family's mantle promising an era of peace and prosperity. Two years later, Sri Lanka's civil war rages on, the economy is faltering and the president's support is plummeting. Ron Gluckman spent three weeks as her shadow to try to discover how such lofty ideals had become grounded.
Jan 1, 2019 · Although there was initial optimism regarding a settlement of the Tamil-Sinhalese ethnic conflict, this soon subsided. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) violated a 100-day truce while opposition groups in parliament stood against Kumaratunga’s plans to devolve increased power to the northeastern region’s Tamil population.
Kumaratunga, Chandrika Bandaranaike (1945—) President of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka . Name variations: Chandra Bandaranaike. Born on June 29, 1945, in Colombo, Sri Lanka; daughter of S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike (founder of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party and prime minister of Sri Lanka from 1956 until his assassination on September ...
Chandrika Kumaratunga was elected Executive President from 1994-2005, becoming Sri Lanka's first and only female Executive President. Former Executive President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga was born on June 29, 1945 into a family with a long history of public service. Her father, Solomon Bandaranaike, an oxford educated barrister was ...
