30 years since Tamil organisations unanimously agreed on Thimphu principles
13 July 2015
30 years ago today, a coalition of Tamil organisations representing the Tamil people in Sri Lanka unanimously agreed a set of principles concerning a political solution to the ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka.
| Delegations meet at the first phase of the Thimphu peace talks. Tamil delegation seated on the left and the Sri lankan delegation seated on the right. Photograph: Sahajeevana Centre |
13 July 2015
30 years ago today, a coalition of Tamil organisations representing the Tamil people in Sri Lanka unanimously agreed a set of principles concerning a political solution to the ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka.
The declaration came at the conclusion of the first phase of peace talks with the Sri Lankan government in Bhutan’s capital of Thimphu.
In a joint declaration released on the 13th July 1985, a Tamil delegation consisting of representatives from the Eelam People’s Revolutionay Liberation Front (EPRLF), Eelam Revolutionary Organisation of Srudents (EROS), Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), People’s Liberation Organisation of Tamil Eelam (PLOTE), Tamil Eelam Liberation Organisation (TELO) and Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF), said,
