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Indian military team where IPKF men fell
View(s):A senior Indian military delegation, now on an official visit, yesterday paid homage at an abandoned memorial site built for fallen Jawans of the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) which operated here from 1987 to 1990.
The memorial located in a private farming land off Kalviyankaadu in Kopay was revived by the Sri Lanka Army following a request by the Indian Consular General’s office in Jaffna, Military Spokesman Roshan Seneviratne said.
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The three-member Indian military delegation headed by Lieutenant General P.M. Hariz, General Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the Southern Command of the Indian Army, laid floral wreaths in memory of the soldiers who died in a battle between IPKF and the LTTE in the area.
The army had informed the owner of the land about the commemoration preparations, and cleaned the marshy lands where a tomb had been put up during the presence of the IPKF.
A Commanding Officer (CO) and four IPKF soldiers were killed when they came under an LTTE attack.