India trains LTTE
What was Mrs Gandhi’s gameplan in training the Tamil groups? According to LTTE leader KP, Mrs Gandhi thought she may be able to escalate armed struggle up to a certain level and then use that leverage to settle the issue. But her assassination put paid to those plans
Late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s Sri Lankan strategy was a mixture of contradictions. It reflected Cold War calculations, rather than purely Indian strategic compulsions. The LTTE’s war to create a separate state for Tamils called Eelam proved a handy tool for Indira to work India into a role in Sri Lanka, but her mistake was to presume she could manage the conflict without letting it get out of hand.
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