Vaddukkoaddai Resolution
Years of state sponsored oppressions and denial of basic
and fundamental rights of Tamils, since Sri Lanka gained
independent in 1948 forced the Tamil leaders in 1976 to
declare the following resolutions.
Tamils of the Island Sri Lanka by virtue of their great
language, their religions, their separate culture and heritage,
their history of independent existence as a separate
state over a distinct territory for several centuries till they
were conquered by the armed might of the European
invaders and above all by their will to exist as a separate
entity ruling themselves in their own territory, are a nation
distinct and apart from Sinhalese.
They also declared to the world that the Republican
Constitution of 1972, a constitution not consulted with the
Tamils nor seek their acceptance, has made the Tamils a slave
nation ruled by the new colonial masters, the Sinhalese ,
who are using the power they have wrongly usurped to
deprive the Tamil Nation of its territory, language, citizenship,
economic life, opportunities of employment and education,
thereby destroying all the attributes of nationhood of the
Tamil people.
Thus the Tamil Leaders resolved that restoration and
reconstitution of the Free, Sovereign, Secular State of TAMIL
EELAM, based on the right of self determination inherent to
every nation, has become inevitable in order to safeguard the
very existence of the Tamil Nation.
After 33 years of that historical mandate, it's a referendum
among the Canadian Tamils of Eelam origins to seek a
renewed mandate to the political fundamental of the
Vaddukkoaddai Resolution, the formation of the independent
and sovereign state of Tamil Eelam, proclaimed by then Tamil
leaders in 1976 and was overwhelmingly voted by the Tamils
in the 1977 general elections and to engage the International
community for a peaceful resolution to the national conflict
in Sri Lanka based on the renewed Mandate.
