Vijaya Kumaratunga, Sri Lankan politician and founder of the Sri Lanka Mahajana Pakshaya, was assassinated by an assassin of the militant organization Deshapremi Janatha Viyaparaya on February 16, 198
blood spilt (left corner) over the place following the shooting
Chandrika Kumaratunga
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Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga, commonly referred to by her initials CBK, is a Sri Lankan stateswoman who served as the fifth president of Sri Lanka from 1994 to 2005. She is the longest-serving p
Assassination of Vijaya Kumaratunga
…Kumaratunga was the son-in-law of former prime ministers S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike and Sirimavo Bandaranaike, as well as the husband of future president Chandrika Kumaratunga, and with his funeral the Sri Lankan government declared an extended period of national mourning. Kovilage Anton Vijaya Kumaranatunga was born on 9…
Kumarathunga in 2015
Kumaratunga (center) meeting with former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell (right)
Participating in a protest in support of the Nineteenth Amendment in Colombo, Sri Lanka, in 2015