INDIAN PRIME MINISTER RAJIV GANDHI's MISADVENTURE IN SENDING IPKF: NANDHIVARMAN WRITES TO RAJIV CONDEMNING AND
GEORGE FERNANDES EXPRESSES OPINION ON NANDHIVARMAN's LETTER : 1987
The western press corps currently congregated in Colombo have a name for it - they call it the Five O'clock Follies, the same sobriquet given to the regular press briefings by the US Army in Saigon during the Vietnam war.
The comparison may be odious, but the daily 5 p.m. briefings at the new Indian High Commission chancery in Colombo on the Indian Army's operations in Jaffna contained some chilling parallels. The disputed body counts, the territorial tug of war, an invisible enemy, and above all, the growing realisation that it is a war where victory and defeat can mean much the same.
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