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Indian PM pays tribute to killed Indian peace-keepers in Sri Lanka

Xinhua, March 13, 2015 Adjust font size:

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid homage on Friday to the Indian soldiers who had lost their lives in a peace keeping mission in Sri Lanka, by visiting a memorial in the outskirts of Colombo.

Modi visited the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) memorial during his two-day tour in the island nation.

The IPKF memorial was built by the Sri Lankan armed forces in the early 1990s to honor the fallen Indian soldiers during their peace keeping mission in Sri Lanka.

Over 1,200 Indian troops were killed in the battles with Sri Lanka's defeated Tamil Tiger terrorist rebels. Endi