We today affirm a principle that is common to all humankind: the right of a people to choose.
Tamil Eelam exists because we do.
The referendum for Tamil Eelam continues across the globe:
Tamil Eelam exists because a scattered and oppressed people has chosen. As in 1977 but this time from across all the corners of the earth.
We assert a principle that has been formulated time and again in history, not least by the founding fathers of
We have today entered into a compact. We, the living, have mandated Tamil Eelam.
And in doing so we honour those who have died in the vanni and elsewhere, those who have died for our deepest dream, the dream of Tamil Eelam.
We say to them: you remain in our hearts. Though the world may deny you, we do not, for today, we say again that your dream is our dream.
They tried to destroy us: they bombed us, they starved us, they killed our children, destroyed our hospitals and killed the wounded and maimed.
But they have failed
And Tamil Eelam lives.
We cannot dedicate. We cannot consecrate.
It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who died for Eelam have thus far advanced. As
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