Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka
1987–1990 · Event
Under Rajiv's accord with Jayewardene, Indian troops land in Sri Lanka to disarm the Tamil Tigers — and are drawn into a bloody war with them; the LTTE later kills Rajiv in revenge.
On these timelines: India, Master, Southeast Asia
More from India
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- Indus Valley Civilisation begins (3300 BCE)
- Mughal Empire (1526)
- Maurya Empire (322 BCE)
- British Raj (1858)
- Gupta Empire (320)
- Reign of Ashoka the Great (268 BCE)
- Delhi Sultanate (1206)
Around 1987
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- Dissolution of the Soviet Union (1991)
- Iranian Revolution (1978)
- Gulf War (1990)
- Invention of the World Wide Web (1989)
- Yugoslav Wars (1991)
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- Night Fever (Bee Gees) (1978)
- Another Brick in the Wall (Part II) (Pink Floyd) (1979)
- That's The Way Love Goes (Janet Jackson) (1993)