Indian Air Force Drops Supplies to Sri Lankan Tamils; New Delhi Defies Colombo's Refusal of Aid

From: The Washington Post | Date: June 5, 1987| Author: | Copyright information

Indian Air Force planes, escorted by fighter jets, swooped over Sri Lanka today and dropped nearly 25 tons of relief supplies to ethnic Tamil residents, an act that apparently led Sri Lanka to suspend its military offensive against Tamil rebels in the region.

India dropped the supplies near the northern city of Jaffna, in defiance of Sri Lanka's refusal to accept a unilateral Indian aid mission to the Tamils, many of whom are fighting a four-year-old guerrilla war for regional autonomy. Sri Lanka protested the air drop as "a naked violation of our sovereignty . . . and territorial ...

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