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This year she can look back at her political career with a degree of pardonable pride. She was the main architect of an agreement her Government signed on Friday with the Northern Militants who have fought a bitter and protracted war with successive governments in their quest for a separate state. The epoch making agreement would pave the way for the government and the militants to work towards a common cause after twenty or more years of armed conflict. While she celebrates her birthday, accolades have been flowing in from around the world applauding her courage and commitment to peace. It is widely believed the aid-sharing deal with the LTTE, could pave the way for the resumption of stalled peace talks between the two parties. President Kumaratunga has worked tirelessly during her Presidency to keep her goal of peace intact and has in the recent past shown political courage by risking even the break up of her own government to find a peaceful solution to Sri Lanka’s decades long conflict. Chandrika
was born to one of Sri Lanka’s most distinguished families on 29th June
1945. Her father, SWRD Bandaranaike, was a senior Minister of the
Government at the time of her birth. He was later to become the Prime
Minister of the country, while her mother, Sirimavo Bandaranaike, was to
become the world’s first woman Prime Minister in 1961. Chandrika had her
early education at St. Bridget’s Convent, Colombo and at the Aquinas
University College Colombo. She then proceeded to France to study at the
University of Paris, from which she graduated in Political Science.
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President
Chandrika Kumaratunga today celebrates her birthday. She has chosen to
spend a quiet day with her two children who have taken time off from their
studies in England to be with their mother on her sixtieth birthday.
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