On 5 October 1987, 12 Tamil Tigers who were taken into custody by the Sri Lankan Navy committed suicide. They were brought to Sri Lankan Army base in Palali

Palali

Palali is a small town in the North Sri Lankan city of Jaffna. It has an important airport. Both military and small civilian aircraft land there...

 with 5 other unrelated individuals. When Sri Lankan Army attempted to take them to Colombo

Colombo

Colombo is the largest city of Sri Lanka. It is located on the west coast of the island and adjacent to Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte, the capital of Sri Lanka. Colombo is often referred to as the capital of the country, since Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte is a satellite city of Colombo...

 for interrogation, the 12 suicided by swallowing cyanide capsules.

This incident happened two months after the Indian Peace Keeping Force

Indian Peace Keeping Force

Indian Peace Keeping Force was the Indian military contingent performing a peacekeeping operation in Sri Lanka between 1987 and 1990...

 arrived in the northeast of Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is a country off the southern coast of the Indian subcontinent. Known until 1972 as Ceylon , Sri Lanka is an island surrounded by the Indian Ocean, the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait, and lies in the vicinity of India and the...

 under the Indo-Sri Lanka Accord

Indo-Sri Lanka Accord

The Indo-Sri Lanka Peace Accord was an accord signed in Colombo on July 29, 1987, between Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and Sri Lankan President J.R. Jayewardene. The accord was expected to resolve the ongoing Sri Lankan civil war...

.

See also

• Colonel Kumarappa
• Colonel Pulendran
• Ponnuthurai Sivakumaran
  Ponnuthurai Sivakumaran
  Ponnuthurai Sivakumaran , also known as Sivakumaran or Urumpirai Sivakumaran, was from Urumpirai, Sri Lanka.He was one of the early militant of the Tamil Eelam struggle. He was a progressive man with reformist ideas for the Tamils. He held Alfred Duraiappah Jaffna Mayor, responsible for the after...
  
  
• IPKF
• Operation Pawan
  Operation Pawan
  Operation Pawan was the codename assigned to the operation by the Indian Peace Keeping Force to take control of Jaffna from the LTTE , in late 1987 to enforce the disarmament of the LTTE as a part of the Indo-Sri Lankan Accord...
  
  
• Jaffna hospital massacre
  Jaffna hospital massacre
  The Jaffna hospital massacre happened on October 21 and 22, 1987 during the Sri Lankan Civil War, when soldiers of the Indian Army entered the premises of the Jaffna Teaching Hospital in Jaffna, Sri Lanka, an island nation in South Asia, and killed about 68–70 patients, nurses, doctors and other...
  
  
• 1989 Valvettiturai massacre
  1989 Valvettiturai massacre
  1989 Valvettiturai massacre occurred on August 2 and 3, 1989 in the small coastal town of Valvettiturai, on the Jaffna Peninsula in Sri Lanka. Approximately 64 minority Sri Lankan Tamil civilians were killed by soldiers belonging to the Indian Peace Keeping Force. The massacre followed an attack...