Valleys and Valour

  OVERCOMING INITIAL MILITARY CHALLENGES BY INDIAN PEACEKEEPING FORCE (IPKF) IN SRI LANKA: JULY - SEPTEMBER 1987   Backdrop to Military Operations by IPKF IPKF military operations cannot be looked at in isolation from the Indo Sri Lanka Accord of 29 July 1987, which is inherently flawed from India’s standpoint. Serious practitioners of geopolitics will always wonder as to how India, which vigorously pushed its way to get the Accord signed and implemented, failed to safeguard its own geopolitical interests.   Sri Lanka was able to secure the acceptance by all parties that its unity, sovereignty, and territorial integrity shall remain inviolate. Within the constraints of its own interests, India did negotiate the best possible deal for Sri Lanka Tamils within the framework of Constitution of Sri Lanka. However India failed to secure its own interests. By committing to the Indian military intervention being incumbent on request of Government of Sri Lanka, it ended up dealing t

  OPERATION PAWAN  AND THE AFTERMATH  OF THE INDO SRI LANKA ACCORD JULY 1987 https://www.financialexpress.com/defence/operation-pawan-and-the-aftermath-of-the-indo-sri-lanka-accord-july-1987/2298558/     Backdrop Well nigh 44 years have elapsed since the signing of the Indo Sri Lanka Accord of 29 July 1987 plunging the armed forces of India headlong into launching Operation PAWAN in Sri Lanka, the first overseas peacekeeping operation under Indian flag post-independence. The Accord was signed between India and Sri Lanka, two sovereign powers, and an implied but reluctant assent of a non-state organisation the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), the self-appointed sole custodians of ethnic Tamils of Sri Lanka. Four decades down the line, provides adequate historical perspective to study and assess the losses and gains of the three main proponents of the Accord. In this brief we shall look at the Accord per se and the play off from the Accord from the perspective of the th