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Clement Victor Gunaratne (Sinhala: ක්ලෙමෙන්ට් වික්ටර් ගුණරත්න) was Sri Lanka's Cabinet Minister of Industries Development. He and his wife along with 20 others were killed by a suicide bomber of the LTTE organization on 7 June 2000.

He was educated at the Royal College, Colombo where was captain of the rugby team. His father was Major L. V. Gooneratne, ED, CCC the first Mayor of Dehiwala - Mt Lavinia He entered politics as a member of the Dehiwala-Mount Lavinia Municipal Council in which he was Leader of the Opposition (Sri Lanka Freedom Party). He was chosen as a Central Committee Member of the SLFP in early 1970s and was elected to parliament in the parliamentary general election held in 1989.

See also

• Notable assassinations of the Sri Lankan Civil War
• List of attacks attributed to the LTTE
• Sri Lankan Civil War

References

1. "The New Cabinet" (PDF). Tamil Times. XIII (8): 4. 15 August 1994. ISSN 0266-4488.
2. "The Cabinet" (PDF). The Sri Lanka Monitor (79): 2. August 1994.
3. Narayana, Nagesh (16 January 2008). Gardner, Simon (ed.). "CHRONOLOGY-Attacks blamed on Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers". Retrieved 29 August 2020.
4. "Sri Lankan Minister Killed in Suicide Bomb Attack". China: People's Daily. 8 June 2000. Retrieved 29 August 2020.
5. Protecting Parliamentarians A Dire Necessity
6. Reuters AlertNet - CHRONOLOGY-Attacks blamed on Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers
7. Failed Attempt: Suicide Attack or Peace Process?
8. The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism, ROBERT A. PAPE The University of Chicago, American Political Science Review Vol. 97, No. 3 August 2003, Page No 16
9. Monument in honour of old Royalists who have made the supreme sacrifice
10. "Northerners receive new lease of life". Archived from the original on 8 June 2013. Retrieved 14 July 2013.

External links

• Nation bids farewell to the late minister and his wife
• Sri Lankan Minister Killed in Suicide Bomb Attack

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