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Off my head I think it was because in earlier period India had helped the Tigers but then under Rajiv decided it was not such a great idea and policy was changed. That led to backlash and Rajiv became a collateral of the Sri Lankan conflict.Just to correct you, Rajiv Gandhi was killed by a Tamil Tigers suicide bomber. Why would Tamil Tigers kill Rajiv Gandhi if India is actually helping them? Again, feel free to correct me as I don't know too much about the Sri Lankan Civil War.
* When war between Sri Lankan Tamils and the Sinhalese majority — about three-fourth of Sri Lanka’s 21 million people — erupted in 1983, India under Prime Minister Indira Gandhi took an active role. It hosted militant Tamil training camps in Tamil Nadu, from which the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) emerged as the most lethal group. India had both its national security and concerns about Pakistani, Chinese and United States influence in Sri Lanka in mind.
* Historians say those concerns, plus India’s growing desire to establish itself as a regional power, were behind a June 4, 1987, airdrop of relief supplies to the Tamil Tiger-held Jaffna Peninsula while it was under siege by the Sri Lankan army. Faced with the prospect of a direct Indian intervention, Sri Lankan President J.R. Jayewardene held talks with India that produced the July 29, 1987, Indo-Sri Lanka Accord. The LTTE, however, was excluded.
https://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKCOL223047
https://www.nytimes.com/1987/10/20/...ort-for-sri-lanka-rebels-appears-to-wane.html