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Operation Checkmate was an anti-insurgency operation carried out by theIndian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) against theLiberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in theVadamarachi area of northernSri Lanka in June 1988. Initiated immediately prior to the elections in the north eastern provinces, the aim of the operation was to destroy the Tigers' capacity to hinder the electoral process, which they had called to boycott.[1]