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🔴Why did the Indian Peace-Keeping Mission in Sri-Lanka Failed

24 March 2023 marks the 23rd anniversary of withdrawal of Indian troops from Sri Lanka. Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Ranjan Wijeratne as he watched turbaned Sikh soldiers of the Indian Peace-Keeping Force board a...

..ship while a military band played "Auld Lang Syne’ said "They came on a peace mission, but then they got bogged down". The Indian intervention in the Sri Lankan Civil War was the deployment of the Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka intended to perform a peacekeeping role.

The deployment followed the Indo-Sri Lankan Accord between India and Sri Lanka of 1987 which was intended to end the #SriLankan Civil War between militant Sri Lankan #Tamil nationalists, principally the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (#LTTE), and the Sri Lankan military.

During the 1970s, India’s external intelligence agency, the Research and Analysis Wing (#RAW) helped to train and arm the #LTTE, but after the group’s terrorist activities grew in the 1980s--including its alliances with separatist groups in the southern Indian state...

...of Tamil Nadu--RAW withdrew this support. In 1987, India made a pact with the Sri Lankan government to send peacekeeping troops to the island. The Indian forces were unable to end the conflict and instead began fighting with the LTTE. India was forced to withdraw by...

...Sri Lankan President Ranasinghe Premadasa in 1990. Rajiv Gandhi, PM of India at the time of the peacekeeping force deployment, was killed by an LTTE suicide bomber in 1991. Premadasa met a similar fate in 1993. During nearly three years of fighting in Sri Lanka, 1,155...

#Indiansoldiers died and several thousand more were wounded, according to the Indian army. Others have put the casualty figures higher. The final departure from Sri Lanka of the Indian force, which arrived under a bilateral treaty in 1987 and eventually swelled to...

50,000 soldiers, was hailed by Sri Lankans as the beginning of a peaceful era in a country torn for years by ethnic fratricide.Indian army officers and soldiers said today that they had successfully completed their mission in Sri Lanka, but they left having met few ....

...of their original goals. The Indian troops arrived on the island pledging to protect Sri Lanka's ethnic Tamil minority and to disarm militant groups, but the Indians wound up fighting a bitter war against Tamil separatists and have now left the north of the island in...

...control of the well-armed Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. For different reasons, both India and Sri Lanka decided that the Indian troops should be withdrawn. But the countries became embroiled in a diplomatic row over the timetable and terms of the Indian departure...,

...with leaders in both Colombo and New Delhi anxious to gain political mileage from the event.
The warcrimes committed by Indian troops in Sri Lanka were same as the usual Indian crimes every where their military goes including Looting, mass rape and massacres chiefly.

Famous incidents as fol:-
•1987 Vailiyothurai massacre: Indians killed 64 unarmed civilians and burnt 200 homes. The women were gangraped by Indian army. Ms Rajaratnam who later killed PM #RajivGandhi in suicide bombing was also a rape survivor from this episode.

•1987 Jafna Hospital massacre: 100+ civilians killed
•1988 Chawakach massacre: 40 civilians killed
•1989 Kokowail massacre: 35+ civilians killed.
•The Tamil people named the #IndianPeaceKeepingForce as the Indian People Killing Force due to the massacre.

Under the double game policy, India used the #SriLankan and #Tamil rebels for its nefarious purposes Indian military's undue interference in Sri Lanka's internal affairs prolonged the civil war for the next 20 years.

#Indian state has long instigated insurgencies and waged proxy wars against its neighbors to achieve her political goals. Terror as a foreign policy has been the official position of Indian establishment since the Inception of #Indianstate.