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Using the impressive resources at its command, the Indian Navy was helping to direct the three-pronged attack by Sri Lankan forces that would force Prabhakaran and the handful of men who had stayed with him into the marshy lagoon, just inland, from where there would be no escape.

India’s Tamil card, flawed as it was, had already gone up in flames. Its newly
acquired Sinhala card was doomed even before the ink had dried on the IndoLanka peace accord.