This article is generally agreed to be the best discussion of the weakness of the 13th Amendment to the Sri Lankan Constitution, instituted after the 1987 Indo-Lanka Accord to provide the ‘devolution’ the Tamils have requested to allow them to manage some of their own affairs within Sri Lanka.
by Nadesan Satyendra, ‘TamilNation.org,’ March 1988, posted by TamilNet, January 2008
[see also Text of 13th Amendment to Sri Lanka Constitution, 1987]
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