Rapid Fire
Operation Pawan
- 26 Nov 2025
- 1 min read
Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) paid homage to soldiers who laid down their lives during Operation Pawan at the National War Memorial.
- Operation Pawan: It was the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) mission in Sri Lanka under the 1987 Indo-Sri Lanka Accord, undertaken during the Sri Lankan Civil War (1983–2009), marking India’s first major post-Independence international peacekeeping deployment.
- The Accord signed by PM Rajiv Gandhi and President J. R. Jayewardene, sought to curb the intensifying conflict between the Sinhalese-majority government and Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).
- The IPKF was tasked with removing LTTE control over the Jaffna Peninsula of Sri Lanka and enforcing disarmament.
- The IPKF conducted a counter-insurgency campaign from December 1987 to March 1990, preventing the LTTE from retaking Jaffna. This mission came to be known as Operation Pawan.
| Read more: India-Sri Lanka Relations |
