Dee ihe ọzọ maka paragraf a - Ụzọ Gandhi si mee ihe banyere nsogbu agbụrụ dị na Sri Lanka bụ nke na-eme mgbanwe ná mmalite. Ya na Praịm Mịnịsta Sirimavo Bandaranaike nwere mmekọrịta dị mma. Na 1974, India nyefere Sri Lanka obere agwaetiti Katchatheevu iji zọpụta ọchịchị onye kwuo uche ya nke Bandaranaike site na ọdachi ndọrọ ndọrọ ọchịchị. Otú ọ dị, mmekọrịta dị n'etiti ha bịara ka njọ n'ihi nnwere onwe Sri Lanka pụọ na mmekọrịta ọha na eze n'okpuru ọchịchị J. R. Jayewardene, onye Gandhi ledara anya dị ka "ihe e ji eme ihe n'Ebe Ọdịda Anyanwụ". A na-ebo ebubo na India n'okpuru Gandhi kwadoro ndị agha Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) na 1980s iji tinye nrụgide na Jayewardene iji rube isi na ọdịmma ndị India. N'agbanyeghị nke ahụ, Gandhi jụrụ arịrịọ ndị a rịọrọ ya ka ọ wakpo Sri Lanka mgbe Black July 1983 gasịrị.
, bụ ogbugbu a na-egbu ndị Tamil nke ndị Sinhalese na-eme. Gandhi mere nkwupụta na-ekwusi ike na ọ na-akwado ịdị n'otu nke Sri Lanka, ọ bụ ezie na o kwukwara na India enweghị ike "ịnọgide na-agbachi nkịtị na ikpe na-ezighị ezi ọ bụla emere ndị obodo Tamil".