Sri Lanka, China vow to enhance pragmatic cooperation
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IPKF: A forgotten chapter ? Daily News (via HT Media Ltd.)
It is now a fading 33 years plus, when in 1987 the Indian Defence Forces made their foray into the island nation of Sri Lanka. At that point in history, things had taken a turn for the worse with the Liberation Tamil Tigers Eelam (LTTE) a terrorist organisation embroiled in a bloody battle with the Sri Lankan Army.
The LTTE was pushed into a corner and its end appeared imminent, till India intervened to rescue the Tamils of Sri Lanka at the behest of Tamil Nadu considering their ethnic affinity. An airdrop of relief supplies under code name OP POONAMALAI on June 4, 1987 was executed by India, to break the blockade put in force by the Sri Lankan Army which had ringed Jaffna. From supposed rescuers of Tamils to the sinister epithet “Indian People Killing Force” the label coined by the local Tamils there was a sea change in perception of the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF).