07/23/2010
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BBC
Former Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga has launched one of her most outspoken attacks against the government.
She accused it of "completely forgetting the legacy" of her mother, Sirimavo Bandaranaike, the world's first woman prime minister.
She said it was also wrong to ignore her accession to power 60 years ago.
07/23/2010
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DBS Jeyaraj
Fifty years ago on 21 July 1960, Sirima Ratwatte Dias Bandaranaike was sworn in as Prime Minister of Ceylon (as Sri Lanka was known then). The 44-year-old widow of Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike made history on that day as the world’s first woman Prime Minister.