- Ossie Abeygunasekara
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Honourable
Ossie Abeygunasekara
MPFormer Chairman of the Sri Lanka Mahajana Pakshaya Member of the Sri Lanka Parliament
for Colombo DistrictIn office
25 August 1994 – 24 October 1994Personal details 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.
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