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Sergeant Yakandawala Liyanarachchige Chaminda Ruwan Yakandawala was a Sri Lankan soldier. A member of the Sri Lanka Army Military Police he was selected to serve in the Security Division of the Commander of the Sri Lanka Army, Sarath Fonseka. On April 25, 2006, he blocked the path of a Tamil Tiger suicide bomber tasked with assassinating Fonseka. Unable to proceed, the suicide bomber detonated the explosives strapped around her waist, killing Yakandawala and eight others in the process. Yakandawala's quick actions however saved the life of Sarath Fonseka, who would go on to play a crucial role in the ultimate defeat of the Tamil Tigers and the ending of the Sri Lankan Civil War. ==Background== Yakandawala Liyanarachchige Chaminda Ruwan Yakandawala was born in the village of Watawala in Matale on November 23, 1971, the third of four children. He attended Ginigathena Madhya Maha Vidyalaya until his GCE Ordinary Level examinations, after which he applied to join both the Sri Lanka Army and the Sri Lanka Police. Selected to both services, he decided to join the Sri Lanka Army, and enlisted in October 1991.〔 He trained at the Army engineering school in Embilipitiya and Panagoda, after which he was mobilized as a military policeman. He was also a boxer for the Army.〔 In 1994, Yakandawala married Nishanthi Kumburegama, who was a physical training instructor with the Sri Lanka Army Women's Corps. They had three children together.〔〔
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