The Little Lost War for Sri Lanka's North

Video Description

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. https://buymeacoffee.com/lostincontext 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