blood spilt (left corner) over the place following the shooting
Location
Polhengoda, Colombo
Date
February 16, 1988; 36 years ago (1988-02-16) 12:20 p.m. (Sri Lanka Time)
Target
Vijaya Kumaratunga (succeeded)
Attack type
Political assassination
shooting
Weapons
Type 56 assault rifle
Deaths
Vijaya Kumaratunga (died February 16, 1988, at 12:22 p.m. from his injuries)
Injured
Sarath Upali (later died on April 25, 1988 at the Colombo General Hospital)
Perpetrators
Lionel Ranasinghe alias Gamini Tarzan Weerasinghe alias Herath
Motive
Revenge for criticizing the Deshapremi Janatha Vyaparaya
Vijaya Kumaratunga, Sri Lankan politician and founder of the Sri Lanka Mahajana Pakshaya, was assassinated by an assassin of the militant organization Deshapremi Janatha Viyaparaya (DJV) on February 16, 1988, while attempting to leave his home in Polhengoda in Colombo.[1]
Kumaratunga was the son-in-law of former prime ministers S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike and Sirimavo Bandaranaike, as well as the husband of future president Chandrika Kumaratunga, and with his funeral the Sri Lankan government declared an extended period of national mourning.
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