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'IPKF told to give safe passage to LTTE chief’

Apr 15, 2015 - Rabindra Nath Choudhury |

Union minister Gen. V.K. Singh on Tuesday dropped a bombshell when he disclosed that the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF), deployed in Sri Lanka to fight LTTE guerrillas in the late eighties, was dissuaded to capture the rebel chief V. Prabhakarn several times.

“Indian forces got many opportunities to hunt down LTTE chief Prabhakaran, but every time there were instructions to give him safe passage,” the ex-Army chief revealed during a discussion based on his autobiography Courage and Conviction here.

Describing the decision to deploy IPKF in Sri Lanka, a “high-level policy failure”, he said the decision to send Indian forces to the island national was not taken at the level of the Army. The deployment of the IPKF was done in the island nation as per the accord between the governments of India and Sri Lank, although the fight was between the LTTE and Sri Lanka, he added.

“At one point, the then Srilankan President Premdasa sought to help the LTTE guerrillas to fight IPKF,” he said.

Gen. Singh added that the former UPA government had made up its mind to deploy Army to tackle Naxalism in the aftermath of April 2010 Tadmetla incident in which 76 CRPF personnel were massacred by Maoists in now Sukma district of Chhattisgarh.

“Former Union home minister P. Chidambaram discussed the issue (on using Army against Naxals) with me then,” he added.

“Army has to be deployed only when there is a threat to national security, particularly from other nations”, he said.

He said the war against Naxals can be won with better strategy by security forces, which include winning confidence of local people.


‘IPKF told to give safe passage to LTTE chief’ | The Asian Age
 
“At one point, the then Srilankan President Premdasa sought to help the LTTE guerrillas to fight IPKF,” he said.

IPKF give safe passage ? nothing but Indian face saving bull crap but its interesting to note that both Sinhalas and Tamils were united to fight Innocent People Killing Force - IPKF , They should continue to work together to contain regional terror super power menace - India
 
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