When Indian peacekeeping forces arrived in Sri Lanka nearly three years ago to try to end a brutal civil war, exultant crowds greeted them with flowers and handshakes. But when the last batch of 2,000 soldiers trooped onto a waiting ship at the eastern port of Trincomalee last week, completing a six- month withdrawal of 70,000 men, not a single civilian showed up to bid them goodbye. If the locals had anything to say to the "peace-keepers," whose presence brought not peace but one of the bloodiest chapters in Sri Lanka's already violent history, it was more like good riddance. Said...
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