-The Tigers control their own territory and run it like a totalitarian dictatorship now, after winning an independent state for Tamils, they have to grant democracy to all people, otherwise Tamil people will revolt

-Tamil Army is a militant army with a cause, to disarm them is impossible and no army can fight them forever.

-The war on terror after 9/11has been used by Sri Lankan States (past & present) to suppress Tamils and opposition descendants and get plenty of foreign aid from US, Canada, Australia, Pakistan, China and Israel. Tamils and their Tamil Army are not terrorist, but freedom fighters. The Sinhalese and International media describes the entire Tamil people as terrorist and remain silent about Sri Lanka state terrorism for the benefit of their Geopolitical agendas.

The end result of the controversy was that Minor Irrigation came under the Provincial Councils and the input supplies continued to be under Agrarian Srvices.

A perusal of both the Provincial Council List and the Concurrent List reveals as you have rightly pointed out the manner in which both agrarian services and agriculture were dealt in the 13th Amendment without any thought about practical difficulties.

Both should have gone under the Provincial List for any meaningful devolution.

Further as one who believes in the proper implementation of the 13th,16th and 17th Amendments would have solved most of the problems faced by the country including ethnic problem, I find further anomalies in the implementation of the 13th Amendment that compromises on the sprit of devolution in a practical sense.

A rational division of functions would have brought the offices of Government Agents, Divisional Secretary and the Gramasevakas brought under the Provincial councils.

In fact abolition of Divisional Secretariats and bringing all the subjects presently handled by the Divisional Secretariats under the Local Government-Municipal Councils, Urban Councils and Pradesha Saba would have brought sense to the whole process.

My whole argument is that proper reforms could have been effected by simple administrative measures and that it is not necessary for the experts ,politicians and the media personals to spend billions merely to disagree and continue with the same exercise with almost the same arguments repeatedly.

Matters have gone past the tipping point after the all out war supported to the hilt by the Sinhala people. Tamils are not prepared to listen to this ‘war against Tigers and not against Tamils’ or ‘liberating Tamils from Tigers’ or the ‘war first, solution next’ bunkum. If any sensitive southern politician wants to really change the course of the conflict while maintaining a united country, it is time they took an unbiased egalitarian stand, and tried to convince their own people on the many corrections that have to be made in governance, starting from the constitution. Their silence has been deafening. If they are cowards, the conflict no doubt will take its own course gravitating towards a just solution.