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Nadeeka Samanmali Perera (Sinhala:නදීකා සමන්මලී පෙරේරා, born 22 Oct 1983) is a Sri Lankan fashion model and beauty pageant titleholder. She competed at Miss World 2005 pageant and has been crowned as "The International Best Female Model-2007" at a ceremony held in Spain .
The Sri Lankan civil war was a civil war fought in Sri Lanka between 1983 and 2009. The war principally opposed the Sinhalese-dominated Government of Sri Lanka against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), an internationally designated terrorist group that aimed to create an indepedent Tamil state called Tamil Eelam in northern Sri Lanka.
Umesha Thimashini (born 24 April 2001) is a Sri Lankan cricketer. [1] In January 2019, she was named in Sri Lanka's squad for their series against South Africa. [2] She made her Women's Twenty20 International cricket (WT20I) debut for Sri Lankan against South Africa Women on 1 February 2019. [3]
Women in Sri Lanka make up to 52.09% of the population according to the 2012 census of Sri Lanka. [7] Sri Lankan women have contributed greatly to the country's development, in many areas. Historically, a masculine bias has dominated Sri Lankan culture , although woman have been allowed to vote in elections since 1931 . [ 8 ]
In March 2019, she was named as one of the most influential women, and among women change-makers in Sri Lanka, by the Parliament of Sri Lanka coinciding with International Women's Day. [21] [22] [23] In August 2019, she was one of the 66 recipients to receive national honors for 2019 from the Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena. [24] [25]
Shehani Kahandawala (Sinhala: ෂෙහානි කහඳවල; born 24 February 1995), is an actress in Sri Lankan television as well as a television host, singer and model. [1] Started as a child television presenter, she later became one of the popular actresses in the television with the serials Sujatha , Sanda Pini Wassa and Sihini .
Yamuna Sangarasivam is a Sri Lankan-American dancer, academic and writer. [1] She was well known for dancing with Michael Jackson during the shooting of the video song Black or White (1991). [ 2 ] [ 3 ] She works as a professor of Sociology & Anthropology at Nazareth University in New York . [ 4 ]
Shreen Abdul Saroor (born 1969) is a Sri Lankan peace and women's rights activist. [1] In 1990 as part of the Muslim minority in Sri Lanka, she was forcibly removed from her home in Mannar by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and placed in a refugee camp.