Vaddukoddai Resolution: More Relevant Now Than Ever Before

By Usha S Sri-Skanda-Rajah –April 3, 2016

Usha S Sri-Skanda-Rajah

As the 40th anniversary of the passage of the Vaddukoddai Resolution[1], articulating a free and independent Tamil Eelam, that which won an overwhelming democratic mandate in the 1977 general elections, draws near on May 14, 2016, no one can refute how absolutely profound, and vitally relevant this declaration STILL IS for Eelam Tamils and how now at this critical time, it is undeniably even more profound and relevant than ever before!

Vow To Uphold

Wherever we may be, beholden to truth and justice, and never wavering for small favours, never accepting small scraps thrown at us, never persuaded by those nations that colonised us, lumped us together and created the inequality; never listening to yet others who fought for their own freedom, but begrudge ours; Eelam Tamils must not yield or capitulate but vow without reservation, to uphold the fundamental precepts enunciated in the Vaddukoddai Resolution – a declaration that affirms and avows, “the restoration and reconstitution of a Free, Sovereign, Secular, Socialist State of TAMIL EELAM,” that which must be considered equal to, and as sacrosanct as the 1776 American Declaration of Independence [2] is to all Americans; as the 1215 Magna Carta [3] is to the English; and, as the 1948 United Nation’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights [4] and other United Nations conventions are, to all freedom loving people of the world!

Trial-at-Bar for Sedition

Now is the time for Eelam Tamils to join hands with the Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam (TGTE), theInternational Tamil Youth Organisation and the International Council of Eelam Tamils who are(individually and collectively) calling for, in their words, all Tamil organisations and movements to commit to the Vaddukoddai Resolution: “…to work on projects which shall bolster the Vaddukoddai Resolution in this 40th anniversary year, and take it forward in all its dimensions with vigour towards our political goals.”

The Revalidation in 2010

We must not forget the Vaddukoddai Resolution obtained revalidation in January of 2010, by way of a Tamil Diaspora wide referendum, [5] taking place in the immediate aftermath of the final genocidal onslaught against Tamils in May 2009, in a war without witness, where between 40,000 [6] – 70,000 [7] – 146,679 [8]Tamils were allegedly massacred or disappeared by the Sri Lankan military under the supervision and leadership of the Rajapaksa regime. [9]

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