The failure of the Indian military intervention
The failure of the Indian military intervention
India tried to adopt the strategy used by the Soviet Union when it was forced to withdraw from Afghanistan. India tried to create a mercenary army with the aim of saving its puppet regime from the LTTE. This army was formed under the name of the ‘Tamil National Army’. An anti-LTTE force was raised by forcibly hunting down and capturing Tamil youth and students, training them, and providing them with many modern weapons. Having created this force as a protective bulwark for Perumal’s provincial council administration, the Indian army gradually withdrew from each district.
The areas from which the Indian army withdrew quickly fell into the hands of the LTTE. The ‘Tamil National Army’, unable to withstand the lightning-fast attacks of the LTTE fighters, who were full of ideals, war experience, and valor, scattered and fled. Most of them surrendered with their weapons. The provincial council collapsed. Perumal and his colleagues took refuge in India. The final plan of the Indian government also came to nothing.
The final year of the eighties ended with the withdrawal of the Indian occupation army and the collapse of the ‘Tamil National Army’. As the Indian military intervention ended in failure, the greatest danger to the Tamileelam liberation struggle was removed. The LTTE movement won a major challenge posed by Indian hegemony. The Indian government learned the bitter historical lesson of unjustly interfering in the legitimate liberation struggle of the oppressed Tamil nationalist nation. Having stood alone and won against the Indian military monster, the LTTE movement gained fame as the world’s best fighting force.
(Translation by Tamilpriya)
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