"After its forces entered Sri Lanka on 30 July, the IPKF was
increasingly accused of raping Tamil women and of deliberately killing
dozens of unarmed Tamil civilians, among them elderly people, women and
children...in several cases there was eye witness evidence that the
victims were non combatants shot without provocation...
Several dozen Tamil women, some of whom needed hospital treatment,
testified that they were raped by IPKF personnel. A local magistrate in
the north reportedly found the IPKF had been responsible for seven
cases of rape in December."
- Amnesty International Annual Report, 1988 for period January to
December 1987