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TAMIL EELAM:
RIGHT TO SELF DETERMINATION

Resolution of Ceylon Communist Party
October 1944

(28 years later, in 1972, the Ceylon Communist Party as a constituent member of a Sri Lanka Coalition government, rejected the proposal of the Tamil Federal Party for a federal constitution and voted for the 1972 Sri Lanka Constitution which repealed even the meagre safeguards against discrimination of minorities contained in the Soulbury Constitution.)

"This rally of Colombo citizens, called by the Ceylon Communist Party, declares that in order to achieve unity between the different communities and common demand for the recognition of independence and a free constitution, it is necessary to recognise that the development of Ceylon is taking and will take a multi national form and that a united and Free Ceylon can be realised only on the basis of guaranteeing full and equal opportunities for the development of all nationalities in Ceylon.

As there are distinct historically evolved nationalities - for instance, the Sinhalese and Tamil - with their own contiguous territory as their homeland, their own language, economic life, culture and psychological make up, as well as interspersed minorities living in the territories of these nationalities, this meeting declares that the constitution of a free and united Ceylon should be based on the following democratic principles:

..... (b) Recognition that the nationalities should have the unqualified right to self determination, including the right, if ever they so desire, to form their own independent state."

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