World IN BRIEF : INDIA : Rebel Accused in Gandhi Death
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From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Government investigators charged the leader of a Sri Lankan guerrilla group with masterminding the assassination of former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. Concluding a yearlong investigation, they said Vellupillai Prabhakaran, head of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eeelam, directed the killing of Gandhi because Gandhi had sent Indian troops to Sri Lanka in 1987 to enforce a peace accord between Sri Lanka’s government and the rebels. Gandhi was killed May 21, 1991, by a female suicide bomber during an election rally near Madras.
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