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Chandrika Kumaratunga - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga (born June 29, 1945) was the 5th President of Sri Lanka and 4th Executive President of Sri Lanka (November 12, 1994 - November 19, 2005). 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 election which ended 17 years of UNP rule. President Kumaratunga opposed the leniency shown by the Wickremasinghe government and in May 2003, she indicated her willingness to sack Prime Minister Wickremasinghe's government if she felt it was making too many concessions to the rebels. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chandrika_Kumaratunga   (732 words)

ipedia.com: Chandrika Kumaratunga Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga (born June 29, 1945) is the President of Sri Lanka since 1994. Chandrika married actor and politician Vijaya Kumartunga in 1978 who was assassinated in 1988. Kumaratunga opposed the leniency shown by the Wickremasinghe government and in May 2003, she indicated her willingness to sack Mr. www.ipedia.com /chandrika_kumaratunga.html   (452 words)

Sri Lanka's Chandrika Kumaratunga - LIFE UNDER SIEGE Kumaratunga is recalling how, early in Sri Lanka's 13-year civil war against minority Tamil rebels in the north and east, she and her husband defied government pressure and death threats to independently talk peace with Tamil leaders, including Velupillai Prabhakaran, head of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). Kumaratunga was only 14 when her father, Solomon Bandaranaike, who was then prime minister, was assassinated by a Buddhist monk in 1959. Chandrika Kumaratunga has survived as a politician, scraping by with a series of risky maneuvers, but piece continues to elude Sri Lanka as the killings continue. www.gluckman.com /ChandrikaKumaratunga.html   (3601 words)

WWW Virtual Library:  Confessions of Vijaya's killer What is diabolical in the backdrop of Chandrika Kumaratunga's pact with the JVP, is her inane, politically motivated utterances accusing the UNP of having a hand in Vijaya Kumaratu- nga's death. Chandrika Kumaratunga for mere political gain has placed the bloodied body of her husband and father of her children on a sacrificial altar, accusing another political party for this heinous crime and thereby consciously benefiting the real perpetrators - the JVP. The confession of Kumaratunga's killer is a brutal reminder that on February 16, 1988 a man known as Pahalamullage Lionel Ranasinghe alias Gamini alias Mahinda alias Jayatilleka whose occupation was a peanut seller, was transformed by the JVP into a killing machine. www.lankalibrary.com /pol/vijaya2.htm   (2524 words)

Online edition of Sunday Observer - Business   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga, who made this point in her recent lecture to the Oxford Union in the University of Oxford, UK, was indeed such a 'radical' first before, many years later, she became our first modern female Head of State. Chandrika Kumaratunga has the analytical capacity to force this critical self-perception on a reluctant State because of her concrete experience as a radical social activist at the hands (or jackboot) of the State. Instead, in her first public reaction, Chandrika Kumaratunga did not hesitate to see beyond the horror of September 11 and insist that the "root causes" of that attack need to be addressed. www.sundayobserver.lk /2001/11/18/fea18.html   (1548 words)

Kumaratunga, Chandrika Bandaranaike on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) Kumaratunga worked unsuccessfully to find a solution to the long and bloody war with the Tamils, but after the United National party won control of parliament in late 2001 she opposed its attempts to resolve the war. Chandrika Kumaratunga cherche à sauver sa dynastie politique Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga, President of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka speaks during the general debate 17 September 2005 at the 60th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. www.encyclopedia.com /html/K/Kumartng.asp   (763 words)

ASIANOW | Asiaweek - Newsmap: Sri Lanka Kumaratunga announced a day earlier that she will not run for re-election in 2005 because she cannot work with the opposition "animals" she faces. Kumaratunga's hope was that by offering Tamils an alternative to the hardline secessionist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam they would opt for autonomy rather than total independence - and an end to the 17-year civil war that has shattered the country. Kumaratunga says it is now safe to hold elections in five provinces where voting was postponed last year because of the war with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. www.asiaweek.com /asiaweek/newsmap/countries/lanka.html   (2426 words)

List of Presidents of Sri Lanka - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Evidence of the temptation such powers can be to an incumbent, that Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga, who had vowed to abolish the office within a year of coming to power in 1994, seeked a second term. While contesting for a second term, Kumaratunga again promised to abolish the Presidency as part of her package of constitutional reforms. Kumaratunga held the Finance and Defence portfolios but in five years, was not answerable to Parliament on either subject. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Presidents_of_Sri_Lanka   (640 words)

Kumaratunga, Chandrika Bandaranaike - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Kumaratunga, Chandrika Bandaranaike The daughter of former prime ministers Solomon Bandaranaike, the founder of the left-of-centre Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP), and Sirimavo Bandaranaike, she won the 1994 parliamentary and presidential elections in alliance with her mother, who became prime minister. In the December 1999 presidential election Kumaratunga was re-elected, just three days after she survived an attack in which more than 20 people were killed by a female suicide bomber, a member of the separatist Tamil guerrilla movement. Both her father, in 1959, and her husband, Vijaya Kumaratunga, in 1988, were assassinated. encyclopedia.farlex.com /Kumaratunga,+Chandrika+Bandaranaike   (191 words)

[No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) Sunday Leader often referred to Chandrika Kumaratunga as a liar, for that she is. We have produced evidence to show convincingly that she not only knew the identities of the murderers of Kumar Ponnambalam, but actively shielded them. Whatever might be said of the inefficiency and corruption of Chandrika Kumaratunga's presidency, one thing must be granted: her intrigue and cunning were every bit the equal of that Machiavelli of Sri Lankan politics, her hated adversary J. Jayewardene. We have often referred to Chandrika Kumaratunga as a liar, for that she is. We have produced evidence to show convincingly that she not only knew the identities of the murderers of Kumar Ponnambalam, but actively shielded them. www.tamilcanadian.com /pageview.php?ID=730&pr_v=yes   (1317 words)

Chandrika Kumaratunga's War Crimes Chandrika Kumaratunga willfully and brazenly violated the basic democratic rights and freedoms of the Thamil people by unleashing a bloody war from 1995 to April 2001. It may be recalled that Chandrika Kumaratunga was swept to power in 1994 (62.28 per cent popular vote) on a peace platform to end the bloody and destructive war that had festered and bled the country since 1983. Chandrika Kumaratunga did not utter a single word of sympathy or expressed remorse to the families of the victims even though she shed copious tears during her (1994) election campaign for those who died during the civil war. www.tamilnation.org /forum/thangavelu/051103chandrika.htm   (3629 words)

News from Sri Lanka - 07 November 2003 Kumaratunga said a ceasefire agreement brokered by Norway and signed by the prime minister was a violation of the country's sovereignty as she did not sign it as head of state and commander-in-chief of armed forces. Kumaratunga also assured the people of Sri Lanka there is no cause for alarm or panic and told leaders of industry that her recent decision was taken to ensure national security and thereby increase investor confidence (Full report in Daily Mirror). Kumaratunga is certainly not off the mark when she argues that the counter proposals submitted by the Tamil Tigers are a virtual blueprint for secessionism and a brazen challenge to Colombo's authority. www.spur.asn.au /News_2003_Nov_07.htm   (10010 words)

TamilGuardian   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) Kumaratunga, using her powerful Presidential powers, seized three ministries from his cabinet in late 2003, accusing him of jeopardising national security by making too many concessions to the LTTE. President Kumaratunga’s meeting with the UNP leader is expected to thrown the SLFP party machinery into confusion as amid her amicable discussions and agreements with Wickremesinghe, the SLFP candidate has taken a stridently different stance on the ethnic question, ruling out power-sharing with the Tamils. This, some feel, is part of a wider strategy by President Kumaratunga, who is constitutionally barred from contesting a third term, to ensure for herself a continuing role in politics which could lead to her return to Sri Lanka’s leadership, possibly as an empowered Westminsiter-style Prime Minister after the abolishing of the Presidency. www.tamilguardian.com /beta/news_details.asp?newsid=301   (747 words)

BBC News | SOUTH ASIA | Chandrika Kumaratunga: Politics in the blood Mrs Kumaratunga's stronger academic background meant that she received none of the the taunts directed at her late mother, Sirimavoh Bandaranaike, who was accused by her detractors of being a "kitchen woman" - somebody who knew all about cooking, but nothing about running a country. Mrs Kumaratunga's tactic since then was to pursue a dual strategy in relation to the war: the defeat of the Tamil Tigers militarily coupled with a constitutional settlement that would give more autonomy to Tamil majority areas. Mrs Kumaratunga was herself almost killed in an attack by a suspected Tamil Tiger suicide bomber on the final day of campaigning for presidential elections in 2000. news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/south_asia/566562.stm   (663 words)

Chandrika withholds emergency   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga has withheld the official gazette notification to impose emergency effectively cancelling her decision on Wednesday to go in for the drastic measure. But Kumaratunga was preparing a new measure to boost the authority of the armed forces, a report said. It was not immediately clear why Kumaratunga has withheld the notification, but it coincided with the return of her rival, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe to Colombo from a trip to the US on Friday. in.rediff.com /news/2003/nov/07lanka1.htm   (214 words)

The Hindu : International : Chandrika vows to pursue devolution The Sri Lankan President, Chandrika Kumaratunga, has expressed her confidence that a vast majority would endorse a move towards federalism, and asserted that she would "go ahead" with her plans for greater devolution of powers. Kumaratunga's assertion on federalism and greater devolution of powers is against the backdrop of opposition from a section of the ruling coalition — the Left-nationalist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) — to devolution. Kumaratunga said "a decisive moment" had come to solve the ethnic conflict and to usher in peace "through devolution of powers". www.hindu.com /2005/03/10/stories/2005031004921400.htm   (418 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   (874 words)

President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga was born to one of Sri Lanka’s most distinguished families on 29th June 1945. President Kumaratunga has also published papers on the Co-Operative Movement in Sri Lanka, Land and Agrarian Reforms in Sri Lanka, Food Policies and Strategies in Sri Lanka from 1948 to date (a WIDER publication), and the State and Social Structures in Sri Lanka. 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)

A President's concern SRI LANKAN President Chandrika Kumaratunga was in India on a four-day working visit in the second week of April. Kumaratunga said that the Sri Lankan Prime Minister had virtually given the LTTE a free rein in the areas under their control. Kumaratunga's view is that her country's "national interests" are seriously undermined by the actions of the UNP-led government. www.flonnet.com /fl2009/stories/20030509001305200.htm   (834 words)

Chandrika accuses PM of siding with LTTE -DAWN - International; September 13, 2002   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) Kumaratunga lambasted her arch rival, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, and accused him of boycotting security council meetings and ignoring her orders to check the activities of Tamil Tiger guerrillas. Kumaratunga ordered the prime minister to ensure that the issue of truce violations be taken up with the LTTE during peace talks to be opened in Thailand on Monday. Kumaratunga has been on a collision course with the government, which is from a rival party and has been moving to reduce her executive powers to sack parliament. www.dawn.com /2002/09/13/int8.htm   (449 words)

Sri Lanka president's brother replaces slain minister - Boston.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) The brother of Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga was sworn in as foreign minister on Monday to replace Lakshman Kadirgamar, assassinated by suspected Tamil Tiger rebels, the government said. COLOMBO (Reuters) - The brother of Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga was sworn in as foreign minister on Monday to replace Lakshman Kadirgamar, assassinated by suspected Tamil Tiger rebels, the government said. Kumaratunga has squarely laid blame for the assassination on the Tigers, who have denied any responsibility -- a denial analysts say is a stock disclaimer from the rebels. www.boston.com /news/world/asia/articles/2005/08/22/sri_lanka_presidents_brother_replaces_slain_minister?mode=PF   (279 words)

AllRefer.com - Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga (South Asian History, Biography) - Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) 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)

AEGiS-AFP News: SriLanka-President-UN: Sri Lankan president pulls out of UN AIDS conference - September 16, 2003 Kumaratunga wrote to Secretary General Kofi Annan saying that she will not attend the conference this month after failing to secure a time slot to address the UN General Assembly, her spokesman Janadasa Peiris said. Wickremesinghe is due to address the general assembly, a privilege Kumaratunga wanted for herself, arguing that she as executive head of state should have been given priority by the UN. Kumaratunga has accused peace broker Norway and the country's main financial backer Japan of over stepping their brief while Wickremesinghe has sought greater international involvement in the island's quest for peace. www.aegis.com /news/afp/2003/AF030966.html   (408 words)

The Hindu News Update Service Colombo, Nov. 20 (AP): There's an old saying in Colombo that former President Chandrika Kumaratunga's father sparked Sri Lanka's seemingly intractable ethnic conflict, her mother stoked it and she was left to douse the flames. Kumaratunga, who since the 1999 assassination attempt has lived largely in heavily secured seclusion, hasn't publicly said a word about her one-time protege's election. Kumaratunga's husband, a rising political star and former film idol, was killed by a leftist assassin in 1988 as she looked on. www.hindu.com /thehindu/holnus/003200511201427.htm   (841 words)

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