Word: indianness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...separatist Tamils of the north and the majority Sinhalese, who dominate the south. But that precise if gory equation was complicated 16 months ago by the signing of a peace accord between India and Sri Lanka that guaranteed the Tamils a measure of autonomy. Since then, 70,000 Indian troops have been deployed throughout Sri Lanka's north and east to enforce the peace...
Northerners are also under siege, caught in the cross fire of Tamil gangs. The undisciplined E.P.R.L.F., armed and assisted by Indian troops, tortures and kills any civilians it suspects of sympathizing with the rival Tigers. "These boys panic or get angry at the slightest provocation and pull the trigger," says a cart driver in Nallur...
...from curbing the indiscriminate violence, the patrolling Indian soldiers sometimes add to it. After every attack on the peacekeeping troops -- and there have been 40 published incidents in the past three months around Jaffna alone -- surrounding areas are cordoned off and large numbers of civilians hauled in for brutal interrogation...
...risks of the off-season occasionally yield an unexpected reward. Travelers are well advised to pack an umbrella and waterproof shoes -- but it may just turn out that they aren't needed after all. There are few pleasures greater than Indian summer in November or a pale, warm winter week after Christmas in which to savor the sights that in summer are all too often lost...
With neither major party anywhere close to a Knesset majority, Shamir holds the most cards in the game of coalition politics. For those who advocate a negotiated Mideast settlement, election results offer scant encouragement. -- Indian paratroopers thwart an invasion of mercenaries in the far- off Maldives. -- Sergei Khrushchev recounts the gripping tale of his father Nikita' s downfall...