
JVP always denied Eezham Tamils’ inalienable self-determination: Anthropology scholar

Sinhala leftists need careful perusal of Lenin’s definition of Right to Self-Determination
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Sri Lankan State lacks consent of Tamil people - TNA MP[TamilNet, Thursday, 09 March 2006, 00:45 GMT]Gajendrakumar Ponnambalam, the Tamil National Alliance parliamentarian, speaking at a symposium in Brussels, Belgium,Tuesday, explained how the Sri Lanka state failed to win the consent of the Tamil people, whom it claimed to govern. "The Tamil Nation is being consistently denied meaningful access to Governance to pursue political, economic, social and cultural development. All three Sri Lanka constitutions entrenched the unitary character of the Sri Lanka State in the face of demand for power sharing arrangement by Tamils asserting their right to self-determination," said Mr Ponnambalam.
"Not all states will enjoy inviolability of their territorial integrity, but only those states conducting themselves in compliance with the principles of equal rights and self-determination of peoples," according to the interpretation of the Paragraph 7 of the UN General Assembly's 1970 Declaration of Friendly Relations and Co-operation amang States, the TNA MP told the audience. "The EU Contribution to the Peace Process in Sri Lanka," organised by the Tamil Centre for Human Rights in Brussels on Tuesday.
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