The Little Lost War for Sri Lanka's North
In the late 1980s, India was sucked into the vortex of the Sri Lankan civil war. It would become India's own Vietnam. Ultimately defeated they left behind thousands dead and the casualties included a former prime minister. This video tells the story of the origins of the war, and how India came to be an army of occupation on the Jaffna Peninsula.
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Sources:
-A History of Sri Lanka, K. M. de Silva
-Elephant Complex; Travels in Sri Lanka, John Gimlette
-The Cage: The Fight for Sri Lanka and the Last Days of the Tamil Tigers, Gordon Weiss
-The Ocean of Churn: How the Indian Ocean Shaped Human History, Sanjeev Sanyal
-This Divided Island: Stories from the Sri Lankan War, Samanth Subramanian
Various news sources, especially The Economist
00:00 Intro
00:52 Background
05:42 Black July
10:10 Kataragama
12:00 Nuwara Eliya
12:55 Nuwara Eliya to Arugam Bay
15:15 Arugam Bay
18:05 Batticaloa
21:31 IPKF and Indian Intervention
27:16 Rajiv Gandhi
28:36 Tamil Tigers