Bandaranayake-Chelvanayakam Pact (1957). Following Tamil agitation over a million Tamils being stripped of citizenship and Sinhala being made the only official language, the Sinhala Prime Minister SWRD Bandarnayake entered into a pact with Tamil leader SJV Chelvanayakam. As evident, the Tamil leaders compromised tremendously for the sake of peace. This pact was unilaterally abrogated by the Sinhala PM. [Full Text]

Senanayake-Chelvanayakam Pact (1965). Another Sinhala PM, Dudley Senanayake, entered into a pact with the Tamil leader SJV Chelvanayakam in 1965, with fewer concessions to the Tamils than even the Bandaranayake-Chelvanayakam Pact. This pact too was unilaterally abrogated by the Sinhala PM. [Full Text]

Tamil United Front Plea to Commonwealth Nations (1974). Having failed, through decades of peaceful & democratic efforts to realize equality for the Tamil people in the national, political and social life in a united Ceylon (Sri Lanka), all Tamil political parties unitedly made this last minute plea to the Commonwealth Nations in 1974. [Full Text]

The Vaddukoddai Resolution (1976). The peaceful pelas of Tamils went unheard. Finally, the Tamil United Front, representing all Tamils, adopted a resolution, on 14 May 1976, to secede from the state of Sri Lanka. [Full Text]

The Thimpu Declaration (1985). A Joint statement made by the Tamil delegation at the Indian brokered peace negotiations on 13 July 1985 in Thimpu, Bhutan. [Full Text]

The Indo-Srilanka Accord (1987). Rajiv Gandhi, the Prime Minister of India, intervened, but the priorities were not restoration of lost rights of the Tamil people. [Full Text]

A Proposal for the Resolution of the National Conflict in Sri Lanka (1997). A compromise proposal by Bates, Wells & Braithwaite (A London based constituitonal law firm) on behalf of the International Peace Support Group. [Full Text]