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Comment: Role and consequences of IPKF in Sri Lanka.

  • UPSC 2002
  • 20 marks
  • India and South Asia

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The Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) landed in Sri Lanka on 30 July 1987 under the Indo–Sri Lanka Accord, signed in Colombo the day before by Rajiv Gandhi and J. R. Jayewardene. It remains India's largest intervention in a neighbour's civil war. It was the high point of what Bhabani Sen Gupta called the Indira…

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  • Background and mandate
  • From peacekeeper to combatant
  • Consequences for Sri Lanka
  • Consequences for India
  • Conclusion
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