Ossie Abeygunasekara

Honourable Ossie Abeygunasekara MP
Former Chairman of the Sri Lanka Mahajana Pakshaya
Member of the Sri Lanka Parliament for Colombo District
In office 25 August 1994 – 24 October 1994
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Died	24 October 1994 Thotalanga, Grandpass, Sri Lanka.
Nationality	Sri Lankan
Political party	Sri Lanka Mahajana Pakshaya
Religion	Buddhism

Ossie Abeygunasekara (d. October 24, 1994) was a former Member of Parliament and chairman of the Sri Lanka Mahajana Pakshaya.^[1] He was assassinated by a female suicide bomber of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) while attending an election rally in support of Gamini Dissanayake, for the Presidential election of 1994.^[2] He was an alumnus of Ananda College, Colombo.

See also

• Vijaya Kumaranatunga

References

1. ^ "Biographyon Ossie". http://sundaytimes.lk/101107/News/nws_15.html. 
2. ^ Jane's Sentinel examines the success of the LTTE in resisting the Sri Lankan forces

External links

• The 2nd landing of parachute

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Name	Abeygunasekara, Ossie
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Date of death	October 24, 1994
Place of death	Colombo, Sri Lanka (assassinated)