It was being written by the Sri Lankan forces tacitly supported by India and openly assisted by China and Pakistan. By the end of November 2008, the script was no longer in LTTE chief Vellupillai Prabhakaran's hands. In this exclusive excerpt, he details how the Indian government, bound by domestic political compulsions, covertly helped the Sri Lankan army and navy to scour out and destroy the LTTE. Gokhale chronicles the details of an unprecedented military campaign by the Sri Lankan armed forces and analysis the reason for the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam's decline. His latest book Sri Lanka: From War to Peace is based on his reportage of the 33-month civil war in Sri Lanka. Nitin Anant Gokhale, NDTV's Defence and Strategic Affairs Editor, has been reporting on military affairs and militancy from hostile terrains like India's north-east, the Kashmir valley and the Naxal heartland.
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