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1719 1 Historic: Indiaâs Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and Sri Lankan President JR Jayewardene had signed the peace accord in Colombo on July 29, 1987. File photo Maroof Raza Strategic Affairs Analyst THIRTY-FOUR years ago, India sent its forces to Sri Lanka after the Indo-Sri Lanka peace accord was signed on July 29, 1987, leading to a botched-up military operation until India pulled its troops out from the island in March 1990. In some ways, it was India’s ‘Vietnam war’, and one that India’s military establishment would rather not talk about. Sadly, New Delhi chose to ignore the military campaign from 1988, once it became clear that it was a foreign policy failure, even as hundreds of India’s brave soldiers died fighting someone else’s war, and over 3,000 came back home, wounded. Worse still, it was 20 years after Indian soldiers were bloodied in their battles in Sri Lanka that a memorial to the gallant troops was constructed on the outskir ....
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Ajay BanerjeeTribune News ServiceNew Delhi, June 12 With three full-blown wars, a conflict in Kargil and several path-breaking operations like the dramatic capture of Siachen Glacier in 1984 remainin ....