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1994 in Sri Lanka

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The following lists events that happened during 1994 in Sri Lanka.

Contents

Incumbents

  • Prime Minister: Dingiri Banda Wijetunga (Before 9 November 1994).
  • President: Chandrika Kumaratunga (After 9 November 1994).

    • Events

  • Prime Minister Chandrika Kumaratunga of the peoples party, wins the 1994 presidential elections following the assassination of Ranasinghe Premadasa.
  • Many prominent hardliner UNP members are assassinated in 1994.
  • Gamini Dissanayake, a former cabinet minister is killed by an LTTE suicide bomber.
  • Weerasinghe Mallimarachchi, another cabinet minister from the Colombo district is killed from a suicide bombing perpetrated by the LTTE.
  • G. M. Premachandra, a former chief minister of the UNP is killed in a suicide bombing.
  • Ossie Abeygunasekara, one of the UNP MP's was killed in yet another suicide bombing. The LTTE remains the only viable suspect.

    • References

    1994 in Sri Lanka Wikipedia
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