International Goodwill Keeps Sri Lanka On Devolution Path
By Jehan Perera- Sunday, October 20, 2013
The holding of the elections to the Northern Provincial Council has been the most significant political development relating to the ethnic conflict since the end of the war
As recently as the middle of this year, none of what is currently transpiring in the North would have seemed possible. At that time Nationalist Sinhalese groups aligned themselves with hardliners within the government to call for the abolishing of the Provincial Councils system. There were government efforts to introduce a 19th Amendment to the 
