Word: sirimavo
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...used it as a barracks. After the soldiers left, de Zilwa sold the wrecked property to the prominent Bandaranaike family. From then on, it was always their house, a political house - where Prime Minister S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike was shot on the veranda in 1959, and where his wife and successor, Sirimavo, would raise a son and two daughters, the younger of which, Chandrika, became the country's first elected female President...
...Sirimavo Bandaranaike 84 The Sri Lankan was world's first female Prime Minister...
...DIED. SIRIMAVO BANDARANAIKE, 84, the first woman elected to lead a nation; in Sri Lanka. Bandaranaike, who first became Sri Lankan Prime Minister 40 years ago, served two more separate terms during her turbulent and somewhat patchy political career, resigning from her last post in August. She may have been the first national leader to address the world as "a woman and a mother," but she could be ruthless: her hamhanded suppression of a Marxist insurrection in 1971 resulted in 20,000 casualties. Bandaranaike had a heart attack in a car on her way home from voting in the elections...