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It was the first ever funeral in Sri Lanka to be telecast live on state television. [9] Kumaratunga's wife Chandrika Kumaratunga fled the country with her two children, seeking self-imposed asylum in the United Kingdom. [14] The day of Kumaratunga's assassination is often known as "Horrible Tuesday" or "the Darkest Tuesday in Sri Lankan History ...
Kumaratunga's funeral, on 21 February 1988, attracted huge crowds and was the first funeral to be broadcast live on Sri Lankan television (by the Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation). It was held at Independence Square in Colombo as a state funeral, even though he represented the opposition to the UNP government. The day of his assassination is ...
[109] She is to also visit the funeral and comfort the family. [110] Sri Lanka: Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena extended his condolences to the people and government of Singapore, . He said that Lee "set an example to the world in building up the modern Singapore and has rendered a precious service to buildup world peace".
[133] [134] The United National Party, Sri Lanka's main opposition party, staged a demonstration in parliament on 9 January to protest his assassination and Mangala Samaraweera called Wickrematunge's murder an "insoluble bloodstain in our national history" and apologized to Sri Lanka for "bringing this dark regime into power," [135] [136] [137 ...
We are going to kill your children.'" [2] In 2002, Wickrematunge's then-wife left Sri Lanka due to the constant threats against their family, taking their three children to Australia. [2] On September 5, 2000, Lasantha Wickrematunge was found guilty of criminally defaming Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga in a 1995 article in The ...
Sri Lanka declared two days of national mourning, and state radio stations abandoned their regular programming to play funeral laments. [167] Bandaranaike's remains lay in state in the parliament, and her funeral subsequently took place at Horagolla , where she was interred in the mausoleum, Horagolla Bandaranaike Samadhi , originally built for ...
Yvonne Jonsson (died July 1, 2005) was a 19-year-old Swedish-Sri Lankan woman who was living in Sri Lanka at the time of her murder. She was beaten and fatally strangled by Jude Shramantha Anthony Jayamaha in the stairwell of the Royal Park Condominium complex in Rajagiriya, Sri Lanka.
An Exceptional Collapse of the Rule of Law: Told Through Stories by Families of the Disappeared in Sri Lanka, Edited by Shyamali Puvimanasinghe, researched by Moon Jeong Ho and Bruce Van Voorhuis, Published by the Asian Legal Resource Center and Asian Human rights Commission (Hong Kong) and the 'Families of the Disappeared' (Sri Lanka), 2004.