Tamil United Liberation Front
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The Tamil United Liberation Front (in Sinhala: Tamil Vimuktasi Peramuna) is a political party in Sri Lanka, which seeks autonomy or independence for the Tamil-populated areas of Sri Lanka, which they call Tamil Eelam. At the last legislative elections, 2 april 2004, the party was part of the Tamil National Alliance (Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi) that won 6.9 % of the popular vote and 22 out of 225 seats.
On May 4, 1972 several Tamil political groups, including the All Ceylon Tamil Congress and the Federal Party, formed the Tamil United Front (TUF). With the group's adoption in 1976 of a demand for an independent state, a "secular, socialist state of Tamil Eelam," it changed its name to the Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF). In the general election of July 1977, TULF won eighteen seats in the legislature, including all fourteen seats contested in the Jaffna Peninsula. In October 1983, all the TULF legislators, numbering sixteen at the time, forfeited their seats in Parliament for refusing to swear an oath unconditionally renouncing support for a separate state in accordance with the Sixth Amendment to the Constitution of Sri Lanka. Template:Party-stub