International Intervention in Sri Lanka

By Asoka Bandarage
May 2009

It is well to remember the 1987 Indian intervention in Sri Lanka which stopped the Sri Lankan military offensive at the verge of its victory against the LTTE. This led to one of the worst periods of violence and anarchy in the country and in the long term it strengthened the LTTE militarily. Sri Lanka cannot go through yet another cycle of terrorism, war and violence. The people have suffered enough. The international community has a moral responsibility to look beyond the narrow ethnic interpretation of the Sri Lankan situation and help end terrorist threat that the LTTE poses not just to Sri Lanka but the South Asian region and the world at large.
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