point pedro didn't have an elected local government for sporadic periods, this was due to various reasons. aljazeera, the asiafoundation and the daily mirror attribute this to civil war; reuters and the us state department attribute this to calls for election boycotts by the ltte (enforced with brutal reprisals for non compliance) and the tamilnet attribute it to the sri lankan government's suspension of all local government in the north and east of the country in 1983 using emergency regulations. trincomalee was administered by special commissioners until 1994 when local elections were held. the council was dissolved in 1999. special commissioners administered the city until the 2006 elections.