S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike
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Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike, also known as "The Silver Bell of Asia", was a Ceylonese statesman who served as the fourth Prime Minister of the Dominion of Ceylon, from 1956 until his assas
Official Photographic Portrait of S.W.R.D.Bandaranayaka
Second Board of Ministers of Ceylon. Bandaranaike is in the left corner standing.
The first Cabinet of Ministers of Ceylon. Bandaranaike is in the first row-second from the left
Bandaranaike in Kandy as Minister of Health and Local Government
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
S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike
…on her husband's left-wing reforms in her first two terms as prime minister from 1960 to 1965 and from 1970 to 1977. In 1994, Bandaranaike's daughter Chandrika Kumaratunga headed a coalition led by the Freedom Party to be elected prime minister and thereafter president serving from 1994 to 2005. Sirimavo Bandaranaike…
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