What is Chandrika Kumaratunga?
{{BLP unsourced|date=February 2014}} {{Infobox Officeholder |name = Chandrika Kumaratunga |image = Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga As The President of Sri Lanka.jpg |imagesize = 205px |caption = Kumaratunga in 2005 |order = [[List of Presidents of Sri Lanka|5th]] |office = President of Sri Lanka |primeminister = [[Sirimavo Bandaranaike]]<br>[[Ratnasiri Wickremanayake]]<br>[[Ranil Wickremasinghe]]<br>[[Mahinda Rajapaksa]] |term_start = 12 November 1994 |term_end = 19 November 2005 |predecessor = [[Dingiri Banda Wijetunga]] |successor = [[Mahinda Rajapaksa]] |office2 = [[List of Prime Ministers of Sri Lanka|Prime Minister of Sri Lanka]] |president2 = [[Dingiri Banda Wijetunga]] |term_start2 = 19 August 1994 |term_end2 = 12 November 1994 |predecessor2 = [[Ranil Wickremasinghe]] |successor2 = [[Sirimavo Bandaranaike]] |birth_date = {{birth date and age|1945|6|29|df=y}} |birth_place = [[Colombo]], [[British Ceylon]] |death_date = |death_place = |nationality = {{flagicon|Sri Lanka}} [[Sri Lanka]]n |party = [[Sri Lanka Freedom Party|Freedom Party]] |spouse = [[Vijaya Kumaranatunga]] |children = Yasodhara, Vimukthi |alma_mater = [[Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris|Paris Institute of Political Science]] |website = [http://www.presidentcbk.org/ Official Website] |signature = Signature of Chandrika Kumaratunga.svg }} '''Chandrika Kumaratunga''' (born 29 June 1945) is a [[Sri Lanka]]n politician. She was the leader of the [[Sri Lanka Freedom Party]] until 2005. She was the fifth president of Sri Lanka. She survived many [[assassination]] attempts. == Before politics == Chandrika was born into a political family. Her parents were [[S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike|Solomon Bandaranaike]] and [[Sirimavo Bandaranaike]], who both served as Prime Minister of Sri Lanka. Her father was the fourth Prime Minister of Sri Lanka. He was murdered in 1959, when Chandrika was 14 years old. Her mother was the first woma