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On 5 October 1987, 12 [[Tamil Tigers]] who were taken into custody by the [[Sri Lanka Navy|Sri Lankan Navy]] committed suicide. They were brought to [[Sri Lanka Army|Sri Lankan Army]] base in [[Palaly Military Base|Palali]] with 5 other unrelated individuals. When [[Sri Lanka Army|Sri Lankan Army]] attempted to take them to [[Colombo]] for interrogation, the 12 committed suicide by swallowing cyanide capsules.<br />
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This incident happened two months after the [[Indian Peace Keeping Force]] arrived in the northeast of [[Sri Lanka]] under the [[Indo-Sri Lanka Accord]]. The suicide triggered an anti-Sinhalese [[1987 Eastern Province massacres|pogrom]] in the Eastern Province carried out by the Tamil nationalist militant groups.<br />
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==See also==<br />
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* [[Ponnuthurai Sivakumaran]]<br />
* [[IPKF]]<br />
* [[Operation Pawan]]<br />
* [[Jaffna hospital massacre]]<br />
* [[1989 Valvettiturai massacre]]<br />
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==References==<br />
*{{cite news |title=Kumarappa, Pulendran Eighteenth anniversary held in Jaffna|url=http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=16019|work=Tamilnet|date=2005-10-05|access-date=2008-12-20}}<br />
*{{cite news |title=The Indo-LTTE War (1987-90) - An Anthology. Part1|url=http://www.tamilnation.org/forum/sachisrikantha/071124indo_ltte_war_1.htm|work=Tamilnation|date=2007-11-24|access-date=2009-01-03}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}<br />
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