Sri Lanka: May 15, 2000

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Since the Elephant Pass debacle, the Sri Lankan Army has received emergency shipments of new weapons and ammunition from Israel and possibly from Russia. India refused to provide such weapons, fearing that to do so would spark a rebellion among its own Tamils. (The Tamils on Sri Lanka are descended from workers the British imported from southern India.)-Stephen V Cole

 

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