KUMARATUNGA, CHANDRIKA BANDARANAIKE

chŭnˈdrēkə bändränīˈkē koomärˌətoongˈgə, 1945–, Sri Lankan politician. 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 1994 she became chief minister of Sri Lanka's Western Province and, after the PA's election victory ended 17 years of rule by the United National party, became prime minister of Sri Lanka. Later in 1994 she was elected president, and her mother succeeded her as prime minister. In 1999 she was injured in a suicide bombing during a campaign rally; she was returned to office by a narrow margin. Kumaratunga worked unsuccessfully to find a solution to the long and bloody war with the Tamils, but since the United National party won control of parliament in late 2001 she has opposed its attempts to resolve the war.

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books on: Kumaratunga Chandrika Bandaranaike  - 31 results

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Creating Peace in Sri Lanka: Civil War and Reconciliation
Book by Robert I. Rotberg; Brookings Institutuion, 1999
...86 Balapatabendi, Kusumsiri, 132 Bandaranaike, Chandrika. See Kumaratunga, Chandrika Bandaranaike, Sirimavo: nationalist and discriminatory...101 ; Sri Lanka Freedom Party, 50 Bandaranaike, Solomon West Ridgeway D., 6 - 7...
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South Asia in the World: Problem Solving Perspectives on Security, Sustainable Development, and Good Governance
Book by Ramesh Thakur, Oddny Wiggen; United Nations University Press, 2004
Subjects: National Security--South Asia, South Asia--Foreign Relations, South Asia--Politics And Government, United Nations--South Asia
...Yahya 178 Khatami, Mohammed 388 , 407 Koirala, G. P. 77 , 78 Kristof, Nicholas D. 174 Kumaratunga, Chandrika Bandaranaike 88 , 97 Kumaratunga, Vijaya 88 Lahore Declaration 25 , 43 , 63 Laqueur, Walter 84 Lee, Kuan Yew 180 Levy, Marc...
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In Defense of Dharma: Just War Ideology in Buddhist Sri Lanka
Book by Tessa J. Bartholomeusz; RoutledgeCurzon, 2002
Subjects: Buddhism--Social Aspects--Sri Lanka, Ethnic Conflict--Religious Aspects, Just War Doctrine--History--20th Century, Sri Lanka--Ethnic Relations, War--Moral And Ethical Aspects, War--Religious Aspects
...ksatriya 53 , 59 , 84 Kulatunge, D. G. 98 , 99 Kumaratunga, Chandrika Bandaranaike 5 , 6 , 32 , 37-8 , 42 , 48 , 64 , 67 , 103...140 , 143 , 150 , 151 , 157 , 163 , 166 , 169 Kumaratunga government 103 , 113 , 151 , 157 l Lake House...
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State and Nation in South Asia
Book by Swarna Rajagopalan; Lynne Rienner, 2001
Subjects: Nationalism--South Asia, South Asia--Ethnic Relations--Political Aspects, South Asia--Politics And Government--20th Century
...48 Khan, Sir Sayyad Ahmed, 23 Khilafat movement, 144 Khilji, Allaudin, 136 Kothari, Rajni, 26 Kumaratunga, Chandrika Bandaranaike, 160 Language: identity and, 35 ; instructional, 113 , 133 ; majority, 63 ; national, 47 ; official...
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Unspeakable Truths: Facing the Challenge of Truth Commissions
Book by Priscilla B. Hayner; Routledge, 2002
Subjects: Amnesty, Human Rights, Political Atrocities, Political Persecution, Reconciliation, Truth Commissions
...Knowledge, distinctionbetween acknowledgment and, 26 Kosovo, truth commission in, 21 Krog, Antjie, 152 Kumaratunga, Chandrika Bandaranaike, 64 KwaZulu Natal, 41 l Lapsley, Michael, 141-42 LaRue, Frank, 31 Lawyers Committee for Human...
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journal articles on: Kumaratunga Chandrika Bandaranaike  - 5 results

 
 
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Other Modernities: National Autobiography and Globalization
Journal article by Philip Holden; Biography, Vol. 28, 2005
Subjects: Autobiographical memory--Methods, Globalization--Social aspects, Kaunda, Kenneth--Works, Narratives--Methods, Nehru, Jawaharlal--Social aspects, Nehru, Jawaharlal--Works
...instance, Indira Gandhi, Corazon Aquino, Benazir Bhutto, Gloria Arroyo, Megawati Sukarnoputri, Chandrika Kumaratunga, and Sirimavoh Bandaranaike. 5. Letter to Padmaja Naidu, 26 Jan. 1926 (Selected 2: 226). WORKS CITED Anderson, Benedict...
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Pretty Girl Murdered
Journal article by Hasanthika Sirisena; Women's Studies Quarterly, Vol. 34, 2006
Subjects: Buddhism, Cultural anthropology, Developing countries--LDCs, Feminism, Freedoms, Sri Lanka, Womens studies
...female prime minister, Sirimavo Bandaranaike. From 1994, until last November, Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga, a woman of notable strength and...reveals deep contradictions. Sirimavo Bandaranaike was elected to office on a sympathy...
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Understanding Human Rights: Barriers in Understanding and Communication between the Wanniyala-Aetto of Sri Lanka and the International Community
Journal article by Wiveca Stegeborn; Nomadic Peoples, Vol. 8, 2004
Subjects: Human rights--Analysis, Nomads--Forecasts and trends, Nomads--Political aspects, Nomads--Social aspects
...and economic health of their community (Bandaranaike Kumaratunga 1998). Punchi Banda Four months later...you for your kind attention. References Bandaranaike-Kumaratunga, Chandrika. 1998. August 7. President of Sri Lanka...
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Obvious Pretence: For Fun or for Real? Cross-Cousin and International Relationships in Sri Lanka./La Feinte Evidente: Faire Semblant Ou Pas? Relations Entre Cousins et Relations Internationales Au Sri Lanka
Journal article by Alexandra Argenti-Pillen; Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 13, 2007
Subjects: Anthropological linguistics--Analysis, Anthropological linguistics--Usage, Anthropological research--Methods, Deception--Analysis, Gossip--Usage, Interpersonal relations--Analysis, Sri Lanka--Social aspects, Truth--Analysis
...United States of America (hereafter MA) and Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga, President of the Democratic Socialist Republic...today brings you the exchange between President Kumaratunga and US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright...
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Jayasuriya, Taksiri. the Changing Face of Electoral Politics in Sri Lanka, 1994-2004
Journal article by Mohammed Badrul Alam; Journal of Third World Studies, Vol. 24, 2007
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, The Changing Face of Electoral Politics in Sri Lanka, 1994-2004 (Book)--Book reviews
...The new President Chandrika Kumaratunga in 1994 made tangible...hawkish elements within Kumaratunga government accusing...security. Also, Kumaratunga faced stiff opposition...Senanayake and the Bandaranaike/Ratwatte has already...


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magazine articles on: Kumaratunga Chandrika Bandaranaike  - 12 results

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Progress & Prosperity
Magazine article; Presidents & Prime Ministers, Vol. 8, March 1999
Subjects: Economic development--International aspects, Group of 15--Political activity, Kumaratunga, Chandrika--Addresses, essays, lectures, Nuclear arms control--International aspects, South Asia--Politics and government
...down. This excerpt is from an address by Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga, the President of Sri Lanka to the South...Council of Foreign Ministers. By President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga, Sri Lanka.
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Kept in Power by Male Fantasy
Magazine article by Ziauddin Sardar; New Statesman, Vol. 127, August 7, 1998
Subjects: Aung San Suu Kyi--Public relations, Bandaranaike, Sirimavo--Public relations, Bhutto, Benazir--Public relations, Characters and characteristics--Analysis, Women politicians--Asia
...like Mrs Gandhi and Mrs Bandaranaike, we see them as the matriarchs...dare to do all this? Mrs Bandaranaike sowed the seeds of the future...parliament. Her daughter, Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga, now the president, continued...
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The Rising East
Magazine article by Richard Halloran; Foreign Policy, Spring 1996
Subjects: Asia--Foreign relations, Balance of power--Forecasts, Eastern question--Analysis, Economic development--Asia, Great powers--International aspects, International relations--Asia, World politics--Forecasts
...Lanka Solomon Sirimavo Bandaranaike Bandaranaike India Mahatma Gandhi...Benazir Bhutto Sri Lanka Chandrika Kumaratunga India Sonia Gandhi Rahul...Bhutto of Pakistan, Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga of Sri Lanka, and Khaleda...
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Personal Profiles
Magazine article; Presidents & Prime Ministers, Vol. 7, September 1998
Subjects: Presidents--Reports, Prime ministers--Reports
...Maria Aznar is a graduate in law from the Complutense University in Madrid. Sri Lanka President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga President Kumaratunga obtained a diploma in group leadership from the University of Paris and began her studies for...
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Tenth SAARC Summit: Colombo Declaration
Magazine article; Presidents & Prime Ministers, Vol. 7, July 1998
Subjects: Asia--Economic aspects, South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation--Conferences, meetings, seminars, etc.
...Nawaz Sharif; and the President of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, Her Excellency Mrs. Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga met at the Tenth Summit of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) at Colombo from...
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newspaper articles on: Kumaratunga Chandrika Bandaranaike  - 3 results

 
 
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Embassy Row
Newspaper article by James Morrison; The Washington Times, September 29, 1999
...to Asia is "fragile." Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga said the recovery could be...world population." Mrs. Kumaratunga addressed the Group of 24...had left Washington. Mrs. Kumaratunga is a target for assassination...
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Return Is Mission of Mercy; Maryland Doctoraids Countrymenin Sri Lanka
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, January 23, 2005
Subjects: Angelo, Joseph
...The government, however, insists aid is being distributed wherever it is needed. Last week, President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga announced that a convoy of 12 pickup trucks and 30 tractors, as well as 90 generators and 50 water pumps...
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Letter From.Colombo: Massacre in Mind for the Birds of Freedom
Newspaper article by Dilip Ganguly; The Birmingham Post (England), January 12, 2000
...people outside the office of prime minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike. Guards were suspicious because the woman had a...blew herself up at an election rally for President Chandrika Kumaratunga. That blast killed 23 people and wounded the president...


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encyclopedia articles on: Kumaratunga Chandrika Bandaranaike  - 3 results

 
 
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Kumaratunga, Chandrika Bandaranaike
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
KUMARATUNGA, CHANDRIKA BANDARANAIKE chun drek bandrani ke koomar toong...Bandaranaike and his wife, Sirimavo Bandaranaike , and the widow of Vijaya Kumartunga...second term by a narrow margin. Kumaratunga worked unsuccessfully to find...
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Bandaranaike, Sirimavo
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
BANDARANAIKE, SIRIMAVO serema vo bandrani...husband, S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike , converted to Buddhism...In 1994 her daughter, Chandrika Kumaratunga , was elected president, and appointed Bandaranaike prime minister, a post...
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Sri Lanka
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...radical policies of Mrs. Bandaranaike aroused opposition...In 1970, Mrs. Bandaranaike and her three-party...came to power, and Chandrika Kumaratunga , the daughter of Sirimavo Bandaranaike, became prime minister...


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