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	Chandrika Kumaratunga -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga (born June 29, 1945) is the (additional info and facts about President of Sri Lanka) President of Sri Lanka since 1994.
		Her father, (additional info and facts about Solomon Bandaranaike) Solomon Bandaranaike, was a government minister at the time of her birth and later became (The person who holds the position of head of state in England) Prime Minister - he was assassinated in 1959 when Chandrika was fourteen.
		Chandrika herself was elected Prime Minister of a People's Alliance government on August 19, 1994 and President in the presidential elections held shortly thereafter in November, an elections which ended 17 years of (A transuranic element that has not been found in nature) UNP rule.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/ch/chandrika_kumaratunga.htm (552 words)

	Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Chandrika Bandaranaike was the daughter of two former prime ministers.
		Elected president was Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga, the incumbent prime minister and the...
		Bandaranaike, Sirimavo R.D. stateswoman who, upon her party's victory in the 1960 Ceylon general election, became the world's first woman prime minister.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9218421?tocId=9218421 (527 words)

	The Chandrika who never studied at Sorbonne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		It is in that context, The Sunday Leader wrote to President Chandrika Kumaratunga on March 14 and inquired after her educational qualifications in view of the president’s official bio data being at variance with the information in the possession of this newspaper.
		Kumaratunga was a student in France until 1971 since she also states in her bio data that she was the "Additional Principal Director Land Reforms Commission," from 1972-1976.
		The bottom line is Chandrika Bandaranaike did not receive a degree from the University of Paris as claimed in her official bio data nor was she a student at Sorbonne.
	www.tamilcanadian.com /news/00/04/031.html (2656 words)

	President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga
		President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga was born to one of Sri Lanka’s most distinguished families on 29th June 1945.
		Her father, SWRD Bandaranaike, was a senior Minister of the Government at the time of her birth.
		President Kumaratunga has been a guest lecturer at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi and the Bradford University in U.K. She was a Research Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London from 1988 to 1991.
	www.priu.gov.lk /execpres/cbk.html (730 words)

	BBC World Service - Women in Power
		Chandrika was sent abroad to continue her education and studied politics, economics, law and leadership at the Sorbonne.
		After her husband's funeral in a ceremony attended by half a million mourners, Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga was chosen to lead the new coalition in his place.
		In October 1995 Kumaratunga said that she believed a negotiated settlement was the only possible solution to the conflict, but the peace talks collapsed and she has continued to wage war against the Tigers.
	www.bbc.co.uk /worldservice/people/features/wiwp/dyncon/kum.shtml (1573 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| South Asia \| Profile: Chandrika Kumaratunga
		When Chandrika Kumaratunga came to power as president of Sri Lanka for the first time in 1994, her family credentials for the job were impeccable.
		At the time of Mrs Kumaratunga's election she said that politics was in her blood, even though her father had been assassinated when she was 14 years old, and her husband was gunned down in 1989.
		Meanwhile, Mrs Kumaratunga's belief that Mr Wickramasinghe was too lenient with the Tamil Tiger rebels came to a climax in November 2003, when she took control of three ministries in his government, including defence, while he was out of the country.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/south_asia/3239821.stm (875 words)

	APPEAL Urging President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga of Sri Lanka to make public massacre report : MANITHAM : ...
		The Asian Centre for Human Rights has appealed to Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga to make public the report on the Bindunuwewa massacre in which 28 Tamils in the protective custody of the State were killed.
		Kumaratunga to India on her 3 day visit to New Delhi starting from 02-06-2005], the ACHR expressed serious concern over the acquittal of the accused in the massacre.
		Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga President Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka Presidential Secretariat Colombo-1, Sri Lanka Fax: +94 11 2 333 703 Honorable President, "At no time there were any incidents among the detainees and the management.
	tamilinfoservice.com /manitham/form/petition/2005/2.php (2730 words)

	TIMEasia Magazine: Kumaratunga Expanded Interview
		Kumaratunga: The main issues are good governance and achieving a true and durable peace, not this farce of a peace process.
		Kumaratunga: Everybody is very happy there are no bombs going off and the people in the north are happy their children are not dying.
		Kumaratunga: He was my brother's classmate and for about four years my brother and he were quite friendly and he used to come home and play.
	www.time.com /time/asia/2004/sri_lanka/sri_lanka_extended_intvu.html (1202 words)

	The Lanka Academic, the official newspaper of LAcNet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		When Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga became the President in 1994 one of her most important tasks was to appoint three special Presidential Commissions to investigate the killings of Vijaya Kumaratunga, Lalith Athulathmudali and Gen. Denzil Kobbekaduwa.
		The most hated enemy of the Bandaranaike dynasty, Premadasa the upstart who was presumptuous enough to defeat the Matriarch in 1988, had been reviled and the road was open for an alliance with the JVP if that ever became a necessity.
		Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga and Ranil Wickremesinghe thus can claim quite a bit of credit for the rapid resurgence of the JVP in the post-1993 period.
	www.theacademic.org /feature/126551110099096/index.shtml (1540 words)

	Online edition of Daily News - Features
		This Policy Statement of H.E. Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga is the DNA of the PA Government's economic and political agenda.
		Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga's economic policies aimed at accelerating economic development and organizing the youth of the country at village level for gainful employment through the Samurdhi movement utilizing the government's targeted income transfers and local savings are the two major thrusts of the policy to meet the serious problem of youth unemployment.
		Searching rural talent from the provinces and grooming them for the future is one of the key areas for which President Kumaratunga gave priority in the field of sports when she was first elected President in 1994.
	www.dailynews.lk /2001/11/10/fea12.html (2526 words)

	AllRefer.com - Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga (South Asian History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		The daughter of two former prime ministers, the assassinated (1959) Solomon Bandaranaike and his wife, Sirimavo Bandaranaike, and the widow of Vijaya Kumartunga, another slain (1988) political leader, she is an economist and a member of the People's Alliance (PA) party.
		In 1999 she was injured in a suicide bombing during a campaign rally; she was returned to office by a narrow margin.
		Kumaratunga has worked unsuccessfully to find a solution to the long and bloody war with the Tamils.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/K/Kumartng.html (256 words)

	Politics - 02nd April 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Responding to Kumaratunga was opposition leader Wickremesinghe who told the president, it was decided at the last meeting they would take up the issue of her interview to the Far Eastern Economic Review and inquired whether she had listened to the tape.
		However, pouring cold water on Kumaratunga's enthusiasm was Mahinda Samarasinghe who said the situation was different since the PA had come together before the election on an agreed agenda whereas, under the executive committee system, different parties would get into the cabinet of ministers in terms of the percentages they poll.
		It is incumbent on President Kumaratunga who once enjoyed a reputation of being committed to human rights that she continues to pursue this issue and bring to book those responsible.
	www.lanka.net /sundayleader/2000/Apr/02/politics.html (15893 words)

	News - 09th April 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		The state media in its over zealousness to protect President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga on the educational qualifications issue has blundered and confirmed The Sunday Leader expose that the president was neither a student of Sorbonne nor a graduate of the University of Paris as claimed in the official bio data.
		President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumara-tunga last week accused a supreme court judge of accepting a bribe from a LTTE supporter and charged there was high corruption in the judiciary.
		The EU document was presented to both President Chandrika Kumaratunga and Opposition Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe by the French Ambassador in Colombo Elizabeth Dahn.
	www.lanka.net /sundayleader/2000/Apr/09/news.html (2781 words)

	Online edition of Daily News - News
		President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga yesterday reiterated her directive to IGP Indra de Silva for the police to maintain maximum vigilance to prevent any post election violence.
		President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga yesterday appointed Lalith Weeratunga as Secretary to the new Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapakse.
		President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga has appointed Ananda S. Gunasekera, a senior public servant and former Secretary of the Urban Development and Agriculture Ministries, as the new Chairman of the Ceylon Electricity Board with immediate effect.
	www.dailynews.lk /2004/04/09/new50.html (225 words)

	Online edition of Sunday Observer - Business
		President Chandrika Kumaratunga at the UN President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga led the Sri Lanka delegation to the 59th session of the UN General Assembly where she won plaudits for her stand on peace, democracy, respect for human rights, a pluralist polity and good governance.Here we carry a pictorial record of her visit.
		President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga with Norwegian Foreign Minister Jan Peterson at a reception accorded by her at the UN Headquarters.
		President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga being interviewed by BBC correspondent at the UN.
	www.sundayobserver.lk /2004/10/03/new00.html (214 words)

	Online edition of Sunday Observer - Business
		The government too was prepared to begin talks on that basis with immediate emphasis on an interim administration to provide humanitarian relief to the North East people whom the LTTE claimed were undergoing untold hardships due to the delay in the resumption of peace talks.
		President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga sent several messages through the Norwegians to the LTTE leadership asserting her commitment to resume talks and to provide relief to the people in that territory.
		While they were voicing their protest President Kumaratunga appeared in the House when Deputy Speaker Geethanjana Gunawardane was in the Chair.
	www.sundayobserver.lk /2004/12/05/fea03.html (1713 words)

	Speeches
		Speech by President Chandrika Kumaratunga at the Banquet held in honour of the Singapore Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong, President’s House, Colombo, June 25, 2004
		Acceptance Speech of Her Excellency Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga, President of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka at the presentation of the Ceres Medal Colombo, 28th May 2004
		Speech delivered by Her Excellency Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunge at the UN special session on Children, in New York.
	www.priu.gov.lk /execpres/speeches/Indexsp.html (1573 words)

	CNN.com - S. Lanka government nears collapse - Jun 16, 2005
		This will mean President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga's Alliance Government has no majority in parliament and faces the threat of defeat anytime thus prompting another general election.
		Among areas affected by the tsunami in last December's tsunami catastrophe are the northern and north eastern coastal districts that are dominated by Tamil Tiger rebels.
		Kumaratunga contends the plan to share the aid is a golden opportunity to forge peace with the separatist guerrillas and end a war that killed nearly 65,000 people before the fighting was halted by a cease-fire in 2002.
	edition.cnn.com /2005/WORLD/asiapcf/06/16/srilanka.government (473 words)

	august2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		The President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga said that the Government was prepared for a consensual Government to solve the constitutional crisis and to end the war and urged the main opposition UNP to come forward with concrete proposals as one group instead of sending different groups with different proposals.
		President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga last night postponed the referendum which had been scheduled for August 21, 2001 to October 18, 2001, to pave the way for a consensus to emerge on Constitutional reforms.
		President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga declared yesterday that she was willing to give up her executive powers with immediate effect on the implementation of the new constitution for the greater good of the nation.
	www.news.lk /august2001.html (6388 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga said Sri Lanka backed the call for an international conference on terrorism, the major theme of the opening session of the UN General Assembly.
		President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga, addressed the 53rd Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations on Monday in a frank, forthright and a succinct manner, pulling no punches and even engaging in a self-critical appraisal of Sri Lanka.
		President Kumaratunga, in her speech explained that Sri Lanka's ethnic issue is an internal problem and we can find a solution to it with the support of our people.
	www.spur.asn.au /Curr3.htm (10055 words)

	Kumaratunga, Chandrika Bandaranaike on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Progress and Prosperity.(Sri Lanka President Chandrika Bandaranaike speech to South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation)(Transcript)
		Chandrika Kumaratunga cherche à sauver sa dynastie politique
		Kumaratunga: Sri Lanka's daughter of destiny, mother of destruction
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/K/Kumartng.asp (534 words)

	Major political triumph for President Chandrika Kumaratunga of Sri Lanka At the hearing of the Presidential ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		The petition which was filed in the name of Gamini Atukorale, General Secretary of the UNP came up for hearing before a bench of five Judges of the Supreme Court.
		During the day of the election the UNP got several party supporters to lodge as many bogus complaints as possible at police stations all over the island that the election was rigged and full of corrupt practices.
		Today every segment of the Sri Lankan society is supporting President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga on the peace initiatives with the Tamil Tigers of North of Sri Lanka.
	www.tradenetsl.lk /announ/political.htm (308 words)

	Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga (CBK) Lankanewspapers.com
		She was a school girl when her father Prime Minister SWRD Bandaranaike was assassinated by political opponents.
		Ministries under CBK expended 60% of allocations within three months
		CBK tells FM to consider UNP views on Budget date
	www.lankanewspapers.com /news/profiles/chandrika.jsp (333 words)

	Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga
		Progress and Prosperity.(Sri Lanka President Chandrika Bandaranaike speech to South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation)(Transcript) (Presidents & Prime Ministers)
		Chandrika Kumaratunga cherche à sauver sa dynastie politique (Agence France Presse French)
		Kumaratunga: Sri Lanka's daughter of destiny, mother of destruction (Agence France Presse English)
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0828349.html (229 words)

	Try President Chandrika Kumaratunga For War Crimes! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		The human rights record of Sri Lanka under President Chandrika Kumaratunga is increasingly coming under international scrutiny.
		No doubt President Chandrika who is used to polite exchange of pleasantries by visiting foreign dignitaries would have been stung by the sharp reproach by the MEPs concerned.
		BBC London announced today (July 25) that new evidence compiled by a secret team of investigators is being used to indict a number of Iraqi war criminals, including President Saddam Hussein, his two sons and Deputy Prime Minster Tariq Aziz.
	www.news.tamilcanadian.com /news/2000/08/20000801_1.shtml (2270 words)

	HE Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		In 1994/1995 when Chandrika was in the battle field of elections, she was
		In her address to the Nation, Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga had said
		President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga in 1950, 2000 and in 2001 to
	www.srilankamuslim.com /noornizam.htm (3146 words)

	Window International Network - Sri Lanka (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		President Chandrika Kumaratunga, 58, the daughter of two former prime ministers (her mother was the first woman prime minister in the world) began her career as prime minister.
		Kumaratunga was partially blinded by a campaign rally bomb in 1999, she has met much opposition even within the coalition government as they seek to find a solution to resolve the 17-year civil ethnic war with the Tamil Tigers.
		Eternal Father, President Kumaratunga was initially elected as a peace candidate but has known nothing but strife.
	www.win1040.com /leaders/a0000246.cfm (277 words)

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