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Chandrika Kumaratunga, the former president of Sri Lanka, painted a sobering picture of an island nation recovering from civil war during a talk at CGIS yesterday. Kumaratunga, who led Sri Lanka from ...

The truly great, President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga appears to believe, should be truly late. By the time her cortege nears Sri Lanka’s ancient royal capital of Anuradhapura, the crowd of 15 ...

President Chandrika Kumaratunga, the daughter of two Prime Ministers, has been a member of Sri Lanka’s First Family for half a century and President since 1994. She spoke to TIME’s Alex Perry at ...

Last week, Sri Lankan President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga found that electoral victory isn't always necessary cause for celebration. Her mother, Sirimavo Bandaranaike, the world's first woman ...

Former Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga urged the Mahinda Rajapaksa government to negotiate with the island nation's minorities to achieve peace. Tamils in Sri Lanka seem to be boycotting ...

The south Asian nation had been gearing up to hold its first international licensing round but the fragile peace process is now looking shaky, with Tamil Tiger insurgents threatening to restart the ...

Many Sri Lanka watchers have been talking about a recent interview with Chandrika Kumaratunga, who previously served as president of Sri Lanka and is currently the chairperson of the Office for ...

Sri Lanka’s highest court last week found S.B. Dissanayake, a leading parliamentarian and the chief organiser for the opposition United National Party (UNP), guilty of contempt of court and sentenced ...

The current political crisis in Sri Lanka provides a particularly graphic example of the vital function played by various radical groups and organisations—often describing themselves to be “left,” or ...