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Article: Free trade and the Tigers. (Sri Lankan rebel group Tamil Tigers)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- August 26, 1995
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WILL India help Sri Lanka to defeat the Tamil Tigers in the island's civil war, now in its 12th year? The fact that this question can even be asked without sounding absurd is a pointer to the astonishing improvement in relations between the two countries.
A decade ago, India was castigating Sri Lanka for killing Tamils. Sri Lanka accused India of being an imperialist bully. In 1989 the two countries nearly came to blows when Sri Lanka rudely expelled an Indian force whose help it had earlier desperately sought to quell the Tigers, who want an independent state in the north of the island. These days Sri Lanka, putting aside its fears of Indian domination, is again ...