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Events on Wednesday 29 July 1987 1
1987India deploys peacekeeping force to Sri LankaIndo-Sri Lanka Accord sends Indian troops to disarm Tamil rebelsIndia and Sri Lanka signed an accord under which India deployed an Indian Peace Keeping Force to help disarm Tamil separatist militants in northern Sri Lanka. The intervention was intended to end the Sri Lankan Civil War but instead drew Indian troops into years of fighting with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. A grenade attack at the signing ceremony narrowly missed Sri Lanka's president.