{"id":102642,"date":"2013-08-29T18:57:57","date_gmt":"2013-08-29T13:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=102642"},"modified":"2013-09-03T02:38:55","modified_gmt":"2013-09-02T21:08:55","slug":"military-meddling-in-sri-lanka-elections-what-will-the-un-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/military-meddling-in-sri-lanka-elections-what-will-the-un-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Military Meddling In Sri Lanka Elections: What Will The UN Do?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=J.+S.+Tissainayagam&amp;x=7&amp;y=6\">J. S. Tissainayagam<\/a><\/span>\u00a0&#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_38677\" style=\"width: 130px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/india-gives-sri-lanka-lessons-in-realpolitik\/tissa-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-38677\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38677\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-38677\" title=\"Tissa\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Tissa-120x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-38677\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">J.S. Tissainayagam<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Sri Lanka Army has said it will vacate camps in the country\u2019s northern Jaffna Peninsula before crucial provincial elections in September. Despite the international publicity the move has attracted, Jaffna\u2019s residents say there is no significant downtick in overall levels of militarization.<\/p>\n<p>Elections to the Northern Provincial Council (NPC) next month will be the first. Legislation setting up provincial councils was part of a power-sharing treaty between\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalpost.com\/internal\/section-config\/india\">India<\/a>\u00a0and Sri Lanka, known as the Indo-Lanka Accord. Enacted in 1987, the legislation was primarily created to resolve conflict between the Sinhalese and Tamils, the country\u2019s two largest ethnic groups.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalpost.com\/dispatches\/globalpost-blogs\/commentary\/military-meddling-sri-lanka-elections-what-will-un-do\">Global Post<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>J. S. Tissainayagam, a veteran newspaper editor in Sri Lanka, is now an editor and contributor to the Peter Mackler Media Freedom Blog. 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