| Born / Place | June 29, 1945, in Colombo, Sri Lanka |
| Education | Doctoral studies at the University of Paris |
| Family | Widowed, two children |
| Power Points | Not even the prospect of death scares Chandrika Kumaratunga. After an assassination attempt last year, which impaired the president's vision, Kumaratunga was re-elected, though with a reduced majority. While the nation's army is currently overstrategizing in the Jaffna Peninsula, office politics are looking up. By engineering well-placed defections, Kumaratunga has considerably weakened her parliamentary opponents. Besides the battle over Jaffna, Kumaratunga faces other daunting challenges, including tackling constitutional reforms that would grant the North more autonomy. But the besieged president has already shown that she can be every bit as tough as her arch-nemesis, Tiger supremo Velupillai Prabhakaran.
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