1989 Valvettiturai massacre
1) Iconic image of My Lai massacre
2) George Fernandes
3) Indian Peace Keeping Force
1989 Valvettiturai massacre happened on 2nd and 3rd of August 1989 at a small coastal town called Valvettiturai, in Jaffna peninsula, in Sri Lanka where approximately 64 minority Sri Lankan Tamil civilians were killed by the soldiers belonging to the Indian Peace Keeping Force.George Fernandes, who later served as defense minister of India 1998-2004, called the massacre India’s My Lai.
Cracked by Vishal and Peregrine... at last :P
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Desperately getting questions from the front page of Wikipedia are we?
1) My Lai Massacre
2) George Fernandes
3) IPKF 'Front Cover'
My Lai was a massacre of innocents during the Vietnam War and a gross human rights violation. The Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka in 1989 too were involved in a large scale massacre at Valvettithurai, which George Fernandes described as India's My Lai.
Nice to crack one after a long time...
Vishal
pic 1 is of the My Lai massacre of 1968 in which US soldiers killed many Vietnamese civilians.
In 1989 the Indian Peacekeeping Force(pic 3) massacred many Sri Lankan Tamils in Valvettiturai in the Jaffna Peninsula.
George Fernandes (pic 2) said that this incedent was the My Lai of India.
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