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		Dingiri Banda Wijetunge was prime minister of Sri Lanka from 3 March 1989 to 7 May 1993 and President of Sri Lanka from 1 May 1993 to 12 November 1994.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Dingiri_Banda_Wijetunge.html (132 words)

	Opposition wins vote in Sri Lanka (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		President Dingiri Banda Wijetunge, leader of the conservative United National Party, has promised he will announce his choice for prime minister sometime today.
		Under Sri Lanka's constitution, which mixes elements of the British parliamentary and French presidential systems, Wijetunge serves as a powerful executive president who can select and dismiss prime ministers and their cabinets at will.
		Wijetunge appeared briefly on state television yesterday and appealed for calm.
	www.tamiltigers.net /tamilcanadian/canada9403d.html (405 words)

	Dingiri Banda Wijetunga
		The eighty-second birth day of Dingiri Banda Wijetunga, the third Executive President of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka falls on February 15, 2004.
		In the last general election he contested - Dingiri Banda Wijetunga, grass roots Kandyan who always saw to the welfare of the Kandyan peasantry and was a very popular politician scored the largest number of votes in the Central Province.
		Historic Udunuwara, the stronghold of President Dingiri Banda Wijetunga cover scenery so varied as to include ravines and streamlets and acres and acres of sparkling paddy-fields vanishing into the purple distant mountains.
	www.rootsweb.com /~lkawgw/dbwije.htm (749 words)

	Asia Times
		Subsequently, on May 7, parliament unanimously elected Wijetunge as the third executive president of the country to serve the balance period left in Premadasa's tenure.
		It was said that Wijetunga did not attend the ceremony because some politicians in the Democratic United Front of Lalith Athulathmudali had allegedly planted a story with the National Intelligence Bureau (NIB) that Wijetunga was to be assassinated by a section of the UNP who were faithful to Premadasa.
		There was no attempt on Wijetunge's life, but it was alleged that he very successfully assassinated the political futures of the then leaders of the UNP.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/South_Asia/DI28Df01.html (2864 words)

	The Problem - 'Ethnic' or 'Terrorist'
		Ex-President Dingiri Banda Wijetunge was a very simple man. His political career was as long as it was unremarkable, until the terrorist bomb that blew his predecessor into several pieces also propelled him to the highest office in the Land.
		Those words proved to be Wijetunge's 'swan song'- for truth is a commodity that is not always welcome in politics.
		Though both the UNP and the PA are National Parties (as opposed to sectarian or communal) with an overwhelmingly predominant Sinhalese membership, they perceived that with the 'Sinhalese vote' being almost equally divided between them, the gate-way to power lay in 'cornering' the 'minority vote' in general and the 'Tamil vote' in particular.
	www.sinhaya.com /tigers_moderates_4.html (2525 words)

	Sri Lanka (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Finance minister D B Wijetunge was appointed prime minister.
		He was succeeded by acting premier Dingiri Banda Wijetunge and Ranil Wickremasinghe was appointed prime minister.
		After taking office, President Wijetunge sought to impose a military, rather than negotiated, solution to the Tamil separatist conflict.
	www.curantbum.org.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0019861.html (3099 words)

	Asia
		Former Prime Minister Dingiri Banda Wijetunga was immediately sworn in as Acting President and was unanimously elected by the parliament on May 7.
		Although several human rights agencies designed to investigate disappearances and protect the rights of detainees had operated since 1991, and abusive provisions of emergency regulations were revised in 1993, prosecution of state forces for abuses remained rare.
		In July, doubts resurfaced about Wijetunge's commitment to human rights accountability when the government pardoned the former deputy inspector general of police, Premadasa Udugampola, and appointed him vice chairman of the Sri Lanka Ports Authority, after he rescinded his accusations of government complicity in the operation of death squads.
	www.hrw.org /reports/1994/WR94/Asia-10.htm (1359 words)

	GN Online: President versus parliament battle likely if opposition wins
		UNP's president Dingiri Banda Wijetunge retained the Defence portfolio, but invited Kumaratunga to become the prime minister and choose the entire cabinet.
		At the presidential elections which followed that same year, Wijetunge did not contest, Kumaratunga became president and until 2000 had her ailing mother Sirimavo Bandaranaike almost as a figure-head prime minister.
		For one, Wijetunge was a mild-mannered politician who became president through circumstances few anticipated when then incumbent Ranasinghe Premadasa was assassinated by Tamil Tiger (LTTE) guerrillas.
	www.gulf-news.com /Articles/news.asp?ArticleID=34440 (923 words)

	MSN Encarta - Sri Lanka
		A week later, during the annual May Day parade, President Premadasa was assassinated by a suicide bomber who was allegedly a member of LTTE.
		Days later the parliament unanimously elected UNP member Dingiri Banda Wijetunge, who previously was the premier, to serve as the president until the next national election.
		In November 1993 LTTE forces managed to seize a government military base in Pooneryn, about 32 km (20 mi) south-east of Jaffna.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761568352_9/Sri_Lanka.html (1757 words)

	Opposition to assume power in Sri Lanka (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		COLOMBO - Sri Lanka will have its first new government in 17 years today when Chandrika Kumaranatunge is sworn in as prime minister.
		President Dingiri Banda Wijetunge called on Kumaranatunge, deputy leader of the opposition People's Alliance, to form a government yesterday, after her party's success in parliamentary elections Tuesday.
		Kumaranatunge is the 49-year-old, Sorbonne-educated daughter of two former Sri Lankan prime ministers and the widow of a popular film star-turned-politician, Vijaya Kumaranatunge, who was assassinated in 1988.
	www.tamiltigers.net /tamilcanadian/canada9403a.html (533 words)

	Sachi Sri Kantha - The Pirabaharan Phenomenon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		One can see parallels in the styles of how Johnson, Mubarak, Rao and Wijetunge have behaved in ‘solving the problem’ of the assassinations of their immediate predecessors.
		Premadasa’s successor Wijetunge was not keen in finding out who killed his predecessor, since he was competing with the ‘populist image’ of his predecessor.
		The lackluster UNP leader Dingiri Banda Wijetunge, who followed Premadasa for the presidency in 1993 was the ignoramus who became a laughing stock by equating LTTE’s military manoeuvers in a civil war against the Sri Lankan army as ‘terrorism’.
	www.tamilnation.org /forum/sachisrikantha/vp/vp09.htm (3992 words)

	Sri Lanka: history (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		On May 7, Prime Minister Dingiri Banda Wijetunge was named president.
		Wijetunge promised to continue the political agenda established by his predecessor.
		A few days later, police identified the presidential assassin as a Tamil from Jaffna.
	gbgm-umc.org /country_profiles/country_history.cfm?Id=153 (3004 words)

	Sri Lankan Politics in Focus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Having joined politics, he rose to be prime minister in May 1993 when a suicide bomber assassinated president Ranasinghe Premadasa.
		Wickremesinghe replaced premier Dingiri Banda Wijetunga who was elevated to the presidency.
		But Wickremesinghe remained in the United National Party (UNP) as it was pushed into opposition, battling an internal revolt and managing to hold it largely intact.
	www.manthree.com /people/ranil.htm (3823 words)

	Online edition of Daily News - Obituaries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		A private funeral was held according to his wishes.
		Beloved wife of late Mr Q.M.R. (Quintus) Jayamanna (Attorney-at-Law), loving mother of Kanchani and Dayanthi, darling grandmother of Githani, daughter of late Mr and late Mrs D.G.F. (George) Tudugalle, daughter-in-law of late Mr and late Mrs C.L.R. Jayamanna, sister-in-law of late C.A.R., late J.S.R., Mrs Girlie Wijetunge and Mrs Dulcie De Silva, expired.
		Husband of the late Evelyn (Girlie), beloved father of Darrel, Antoinette and Charles, father-in-law of Anoma, Kelvin Atkinson and Diana, grandfather of Rohan and Shanika.
	origin.dailynews.lk /2002/04/29/obits.html (798 words)

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