The World - News from Feb. 22, 1988
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Four leftist Sri Lankan parties officially formed an alliance at the funeral of an assassinated movie star-politician. Clad in a white mourning sari, Chandrika, widow of murdered leftist leader Vijaya Kumaranatunga, signed an agreement on behalf of the People’s Party, setting up the United Socialist Alliance. Leaders of three other leftist parties--a socialist party, the Communist party, and a small Trotskyite group--also signed the agreement on a rostrum where Kumaranatunga’s coffin rested. The coffin was then placed on a funeral pyre and set afire in view of several hundred thousand mourners in the capital of Colombo.
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