Author Archive for 13th Amendment

Full implementation of 13A: Final solution to ‘national problem’ or end of unitary state?

Thursday, October 5th, 2023

By Kalyananda Tiranagama Executive Director Lawyers for Human Rights and DevelopmentCourtesy The Island It appears that President Ranil Wickremasinghe, all along his political career, has acted in the belief that he can bring about national unity, true national reconciliation among different communities and find a lasting solution to the ethnic problem only by granting more […]

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13 වැනි සංශෝධනයේ සුල මුල ධර්ම ශ්‍රී හෙළිකරයි (වීඩියෝ)

Thursday, August 24th, 2023

 Lanka Lead News 13 වැනි ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාව කරළියට පැමිණියේ 1987 දී වුව ද 13 වැනි සංශෝධනයට මුලපිරීම සිදුවන්නේ 1983 වසරේ දී බව දේශපාලන විශ්ලේෂක, ජ්‍යෙෂ්ඨ මාධ්‍යවේදී ධර්ම ශ්‍රී කාරියවරම් මහතා පවසයි. අන්තර්ජාල නාලිකාවක් හරහා මේ පිළිබඳව සවිස්තර ඉදිරිපත් කිරීමක් සිදුකරමින් ඒ මහතා පවසන්නේ 1977 දී විශාල ජනවරමකින් බලයට පත්වූ ජේ.ආර්. ජයවර්ධන මහතා 1982 වන විට […]

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13 බලාත්මක කිරීම අදියර 3කින්… ජනපති රනිල්ගෙන් සූත්‍රයක්

Thursday, August 17th, 2023

Lanka Lead News ආණ්ඩුවේ අභ්‍යන්තර ආරංචිමාර්ග වලට අනුව ජනාධිපතිවරයා විසින් දෙමළ පක්ෂවලට ලබාදී ඇති පොරොන්දුව අනුව 13 වැනි සංශෝධනය පූර්ණ වශයෙන් බලාත්මක කිරීම අදියර 3කින් ක්‍රියාත්මක කෙරෙන බව තහවුරු වේ. ඒ අනුව පළමුවැන්න දැන්ට ආරම්භකර ඇති පරිදි පරිපාලන ක්‍රියාමාර්ග ගැනීමය. පුරාවිද්‍යා ආඥා පනත නිශ්ක්‍රීය කිරීම සහ නව ඉඩම් ප්‍රතිපත්ති පනත, සත්‍ය සෙවීමේ කොමිසමේ පනත ආදිය […]

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A letter to the President from National Joint Committee

Thursday, March 2nd, 2023

Lt Col Anil Amarasekera. (Rtd.) Co-President National Joint Committee 01st March 2023. His Excellency, President Ranil Wickremasinghe, The Presidential Secretariat,Colombo 1. Your Excellency, You have made a public statement that you intend to fully implement the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution. The National Joint Committee (NJC) intends to caution you against implementing such a decision […]

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ARE THERE VALID REASONS TO FULLY IMPLEMENT THE 13TH AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION

Thursday, March 2nd, 2023

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS Why a constitution needs a country may be a complex and broad question, but it involves many points to consider. The answer to this question would be analytical that should cogitate various points relating to modern democratic aspects which concern with rights and responsibilities of citizens. It invites views and discusses many […]

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13A and federalism: US manoeuvrings since 1980s

Thursday, February 23rd, 2023

By Daya Gamage Former US State Department Foreign Service National Political Specialist Courtesy The Island Activating the 13th Amendment and devolution of power – possibly with the merger of two provinces –seems to have returned to the national agenda with President Ranil Wickremasinghe taking a lead role. He undertook a similar endeavour as the prime […]

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JVP is against 13th Amendment – Handunnetti

Tuesday, February 21st, 2023

Courtesy Adaderana Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) MP Sunil Handunnetti has revealed that his party is not in agreement with the 13th Amendment to the Constitution.  Speaking on the 13th Amendment during an interview with Ada Derana, Handunnetti revealed that the National People’s Power (NPP) does not accept the Amendment to any extent, adding that the […]

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රටට මර බිය දන්වන 13වන විවස්ථා සංශෝධනය සහ ලංකාවේ දේශපාලනය

Thursday, February 16th, 2023

Sanka Chandima 13 සංශෝධනය සම්පූර්ණයෙන්ම ක්‍රියාත්මක කරන කිසිවෙකුට මේ රට පාලනය කිරීමේ කිසිදු අයිතියක් කිසිසේත්ම නොමැත. #Decolonise our constitution & abolish the provincial councils. Build a new constitution for us based on who we are, not on what imperialists want us to be: slaves. We haven’t forgotten how the Indian Army invaded #SriLanka to the […]

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Issues in fully implementing 13A: Land powers

Wednesday, February 15th, 2023

By C. A. Chandraprema Courtesy The Island Many of those who call for the ‘full implementation of the 13th Amendment’ believe that all State land should be completely under the control of the provincial councils. The actual extent of the devolution of land powers would depend on the language used in the text of the 13th Amendment, […]

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Lankan Tamils propose pruning of Governor’s powers in 13A

Sunday, February 12th, 2023

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, February 12: A section of Sri Lankan Tamil political parties has proposed that as part of measures to make devolution under the 13 th. Amendment (13A) of the constitution meaningful the powers vested with the Provincial Governor be pruned, and more powers granted to the Chief Minister and the Board of Ministers. […]

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13-Aමර උගුල හා ජනාධිපති රනිල් (ව)කරකවන <කොටි>වලිගය – part 3 (A)

Saturday, February 11th, 2023

C. Wijeyawickrema, LL.B., Ph.D දැන හෝ නොදැන ලංකාවේ අගමැතිවරු/ජනාධිපතිවරු දමිළ බෙදුම්වාදයට ඉණිමං බැඳීම හැඳින්වීම මහජන චන්දයෙන් එක මන්ත්‍රී ආසනයක්වත් දිනා නොගෙන, රටේ ජනාධිපතිවී, 13 නමැති විෂඝෝර සර්පයාව සිය කලිසම් සාක්කුවේ ඔබාගෙන, විශේෂයෙන් රටේ බුදු අම්මෝ බෞද්ධයින්ට පුස්පාට් දමනලද පංචකන්ධයක් වශයෙන් රනිල් මහතා ඉතිහාසගත වනු ඇත. ඔහු කුවේණීගේ සාපය යනු කුමක්දැයි යමෙකුට සිහිපත් කරවයි. ප්‍රභාකරන් විසින් […]

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The 13th Amendment: by thugs, with thugs and for thugs

Thursday, February 9th, 2023

Malinda Seneviratne There are some uncomfortable truths about the 13th Amendment, devolution of power and of course provincial councils. Let’s begin with the here-and-now. Provincial Council elections haven’t been held in years. It is more than 10 years since the Eastern Provincial Council elections were held and more than nine since they were held for […]

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NPP Position on 13A Shows Political Maturity (13A Neither a Vote Winner nor a Vote Loser)

Thursday, February 9th, 2023

Dilrook Kannangara JVP was the last of the Sinhala political parties to accept 13A and provincial councils in 1999. By then UNP, SLMP, SLMC, EPRLF, SLFP and PA had succumbed to the 13A honeypot. It was a wise decision of the JVP to at last embrace the inevitable. 13A has no benefits for the nation; […]

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Wonder why RW trying to implement controversial 13A at this critical juncture: Maithripala

Thursday, February 9th, 2023

Courtesy The Daily Mirror President Ranil Wickremesinghe has taken a torch which is burning from both side by trying to fully implement the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, Former President Maithripala Sirisena said today. He said he wondered why Ranil Wickremesinghe was trying to implement this controversial 13A when the country was facing serious issues. […]

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New laws to be introduced regarding powers of Provincial Councils – President

Wednesday, February 8th, 2023

Courtesy Ceylon Today President Ranil Wickremesinghe said new laws will be introduced for the implementation of powers of the Provincial Councils in the fields of education and health. It is alleged that due to certain practices of the Central Government, the powers of the Provincial Councils have been reduced in the fields of education and […]

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Replace Provincial Councils with District Councils

Sunday, February 5th, 2023

 Sugath Kulatunga The obnoxious 13th Amendment to the Constitution has surfaced again with the announcement by the President that 13A should be fully implemented, which also implies the remerger of the Northern and Eastern Provinces. His argument is that the provisions on police and land powers have been in the Constitution for the last 37 […]

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ජනාධිපතිවරයා පාර්ලිමේන්තුව දෙවන වරටත් කල් දැම්මේ 13 බලාත්මක කිරීම ඇතුළත් “රාජාසන කතාව වැඩි ඡන්දයෙන් සම්මත කරගෙන” ඔහුගේ බෙදුම්වාදී ගමනේ සුජාතභාවය හදාගන්නයි – ජානිපෙ නායක විමල් වීරවංශ

Sunday, February 5th, 2023

Lanka Lead News ජනාධිපතිවරයා දෙවැනි වරටත් පාර්ලිමේන්තුව කල් දමනු ලැබුවේ ‘ලොකු පුටුවක’ යළි වාඩිවීමට යැයි පවසමින් ජනාධිපතිවරයාගේ සැබෑ වෑයම යටගැසීමට ඇතැමුන් උත්සාහ ගත්ත ද, ජනාධිපතිවරයා සූදානම් වන්නේ ‘දහතුන්වැනි ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථා සංශෝධනය පූර්ණ ලෙස බලාත්මක කිරීම’ තම රාජාසන කතාවට ඇතුළත් කර එය පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ වැඩි ඡන්දයෙන් සම්මත කරගෙන, තම බෙදුම්වාදී ගමනට සුජාතභාවය සාදා ගැනීමට බව ජානිපෙ නායක, […]

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13 බලාත්මක කරමින් රනිල් සිදුකිරීමට යන මහා පාවාදීම ජවිපෙ සඟවන්නට හදන හැටි ජයන්ත සමරවීර කියාදෙයි (වීඩියෝ)

Sunday, February 5th, 2023

Lanka Lead News රටේ ජනතාව බෙහෙත් පෙත්තේ සිට ගන්නා ආහාර වේල දක්වා ආපදාවට ලක්වී, අසරණ වී සිටින මොහොතක එම ආපදාව ප්‍රයෝජනයට ගනිමින් රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ ජනාධිපතිවරයා තමන්ගේ මාමා වූ ජේ.ආර්. ජයවර්ධනට කරගැනීමට නොහැකි වූ 13 සංශෝධනය හරහා රට බෙදීමේ ක්‍රියාවලිය සක්‍රීය කරමින් සිටින බව ජානිපෙ ජාතික සංවිධායක, පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී ජයන්ත සමරවීර මහතා පවසයි. 13 සම්පූර්ණයෙන් බලාත්මක […]

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Not in favour of 13A; could lead to separatism, EP Governor says

Sunday, February 5th, 2023

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Eastern Province Governor Anuradha Yahampath today expressed her displeasure over the implementation of the 13th Amendment because it could lead to separatism in the country. Addressing an event today, she said that she was totally against separatism. “The separatism will cause no peace in the island and leads to war. If […]

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13A Land & Police powers will give Northern Province the Tamil Eelam Sri Lanka’s soldiers sacrificed their lives to prevent

Saturday, February 4th, 2023

Shenali D Waduge The northern province has become a virtual Tamil only province by virtue of chasing out Sinhalese & Muslims who had been living prior to Independence. Implementing 13A in full would mean this Tamil Only Northern Province will get the Tamil Eelam State their politicians politically vied for & Tamil militants fought for […]

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Open Letter to the President (HE RW) of the Sri Lankan Republic

Saturday, February 4th, 2023

By Engr. Kanthar Balanathan DipEE (UK), GradCert (RelEng-Monash), DipBus&Adm (Finance-Massey), C.Eng., MIEE, Former Director of Power Engineering Solutions Pty Ltd, Consulting Electrical Engineers Since independence in 1948, the country has gone bankrupt although Sri Lanka generated foreign income through tourism, tea, rubber etc. As a President, you should be aware of the country’s economic and financial […]

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Full implementation of 13A and its repercussions

Saturday, February 4th, 2023

Sangadasa Akurugoda As per the media reports, President Wickremesinghe reiterated his intention to fully implement the controversial 13th Amendment to the Constitution at the Thai Pongal celebrations, in Jaffna, on January 15 and again during the party leaders’ meeting at the Presidential Secretariat. According to above reports, the Cabinet is in favor of the full […]

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Does India want 13A LAND & POLICE POWERS or is it USA/Church – Sri Lanka’s dilemma?

Thursday, February 2nd, 2023

Shenali D Waduge 13A is not about police or land powers, it is only about power. The question is, power for whom & under what conditions. 13A came subsequent to the signing of the Indo-Lanka Accord in 1987. Both were acts of aggression. India was pro-Russian & a closed economy while Sri Lanka had tilted […]

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Cynical irony of consecrating the full implementation of the controversial 13A with a special Sacred Tooth Relic exposition

Thursday, February 2nd, 2023

By Rohana R. Wasala Tamil National Alliance (TNA) spokesman and Jaffna District MP M.A. Sumanthiran says that his party has decided to boycott the independence day celebrations this year, as reported in The Island of January 31, 2023. Instead, they will declare it a Black Day and commence a movement towards achieving what they call […]

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13 සම්පූර්ණයෙන්ම බලාත්මක කිරීමෙන් රටට සිදුවන්නේ කුමක්ද? – ආචාර්ය ගුණදාස අමරසේකර පැහැදිළි කරයි

Thursday, February 2nd, 2023

Lanka Lead News පසුගිය දා රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ ජනාධිපතිවරයා 13 සම්පූර්ණයෙන් බලාත්මක කරන බව පවසා එමගින් රට නොබෙදෙන බව ප්‍රකාශ කළ ද එය සිදුවන්නේ කෙසේදැයි නොපැවසූ බව ආචාර්ය ගුණදාස අමරසේකර මහතා පවසයි. ලබන 08 වැනිදා ජනාධිපතිවරයා 13 සම්පූර්ණයෙන් බලාත්මක කිරීමේ යෝජනාව පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට ඉදිරිපත් කරන  බව කියා ඇති බවත්, ඔහු මෙයින් විශාල ප්‍රයෝගයක් කිරීමට උත්සාහ දරන බවත් […]

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13th Amendment should not be enforced – Chief Prelates.

Thursday, February 2nd, 2023

Courtesy Adaderana The Chief Prelates of the Three Chapters have accused President Ranil Wickremesinghe of confusing the country following his statement on the implementation of the 13th Amendment. In a letter addressed to the Head of State today (02 Feb.), the religious leaders deemed the 13th Amendment as a piece of legislation that gives rise […]

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Declaring Unilateral Declaration of Independence is reason not to give Police & Land Powers under 13A.

Wednesday, February 1st, 2023

Shenali D Waduge The Indo-Lanka Accord was signed to end the ethnic conflict”. The 13th amendment was to constitutionally end the ethnic conflict”. Both were failures because the solutions became the problem. The solutions had vested interests & agendas in mind & became political footballs that were never meant to be solved. It is for this […]

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