Lieutenant General Depinder Singh, Overall Force Commander of the Indian Peace Keeping Force:
'Numerous questions were to be asked as to why the IPKF could not capture or kill Pirabakaran another equally wild allegation was that the IPKF had orders not to kill Pirabakaran. Apart from the impossibility of singling out an individual target for destruction or protection in such an environment, we must remember that by virtue of the fact that the LTTE had an effective junior leadership, the loss of Pirabakaran could never have resulted in the disintegration of the LTTE....
This (book) is a left handed salute to the LTTE whose deviousness cannot overshadow their incredible motivation and magnificent fighting prowess, for which the Indian armed forces will always have a healthy respect.
(Lieutenant General Depinder Singh in 'IPKF in Sri Lanka' published in 1992)' |