D. M. Dassanayake
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Dassanayake Mudiyanselage Dassanayake (April 29, 1953 – January 8, 2008) was a Sri Lanka politician from the Puttalam District. He was serving as a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka and non-cabinet Minister of Nation Building when he was assassinated in a roadside bomb attack on January 8, 2008 in Ja-Ela, twelve miles north of Colombo. The attack, which was blamed on the militant Tamil Tigers organization, killed three people and injured ten others. While alive he won an award for having the longest name for a politician ever, beating the previous winner by 5 letters[citation needed].
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