AfterDemilitarisation
Demilitarisation is a process, not an event. Who acts, what is verified, what is published, what triggers the next phase.
The most reasonable objection to the petition is operational, not ideological: what actually happens the morning after? This page answers that on the public record. It is drawn from four well-documented modern transitions — Northern Ireland (Operation Banner / Patten), Aceh (Helsinki MoU 2005 / AMM), Mindanao (Bangsamoro Normalisation Track), Kosovo (KFOR drawdown / EULEX, HPD/KPA) — and translated into a North-East operational schema. It is not a TLTE programme. TLTE does not police, hold land, or run reconstruction.
Custody handover
- A named civilian custodian (district authority + local council + an external verifier) takes custody of each released military site.
- Site sealed; perimeter recorded; inventory taken (buildings, equipment, livestock, standing crops, structures built on occupied land).
- UXO and landmine survey begins immediately on every released parcel — no civilian re-entry until clearance is signed off.
- Records: military land registers, occupation files, and surveillance logs handed over under a published custody chain.
- Public output: a daily handover bulletin naming every site released, in Tamil, Sinhala and English.
TemplateAMM (Aceh Monitoring Mission) site-by-site verification, 2005–06; KFOR site handover protocols.
Demining and survey
- HALO Trust, MAG and Sri Lanka's National Mine Action Centre conduct a joint clearance pass on every parcel.
- Cadastral re-survey: parcel mapped against any surviving pre-1983 deed, Grama Niladhari record, and oral testimony from displaced families.
- A public Land Registry for the released North-East parcels is opened — open dataset, timestamped, version-controlled.
- Interim civilian presence: an unarmed local police detachment, with Tamil-speaking officers proportionate to the local population (Patten template).
TemplateHard data already public — Keppapilavu 171 acres still under occupation as of 1 May 2026 (59.5 residential, 111 agricultural). The March 2025 5,941-acre gazette is the named test parcel.
Restitution and return
- Restitution claims heard by a Land and Property Claims Body modelled on Kosovo's Housing and Property Directorate (HPD) and successor Kosovo Property Agency (KPA).
- Evidentiary standard: oral testimony admissible where deeds are destroyed; corroboration by two independent witnesses or a Grama Niladhari record sufficient for a presumptive claim.
- Compensation pathway for parcels that cannot be returned in kind.
- Return logistics: published support package — transport, temporary shelter, water, schools, electricity, agricultural restart kit.
- Public dashboards: claims received, claims resolved, parcels returned, parcels in dispute. Tamil/Sinhala/English. Updated weekly.
TemplateKosovo HPD/KPA case-by-case adjudication; Bosnia–Herzegovina CRPC.
Civilian rule of law
- Patten-style police reform: independent oversight board, ombudsman, recruitment rebalancing, complaints mechanism, mandatory body-worn cameras.
- Judicial capacity in Jaffna, Kilinochchi, Mullaitivu, Mannar, Vavuniya, Trincomalee, Batticaloa: case-clearance audit and additional Tamil-speaking magistrates where required.
- The PTA suspended in formerly militarised districts pending replacement by an ordinary criminal-law framework consistent with the ICCPR.
- Office on Missing Persons (OMP), Office for Reparations (OR), Office on National Unity and Reconciliation (ONUR) — each receives a named work programme, budget line, and quarterly public report.
TemplatePatten Report (1999); Police (Northern Ireland) Acts 2000 and 2003.
Reconstruction with verified contributors
- Civilian recovery infrastructure (jobs, learning, youth, culture, wellbeing, community service, transparent local projects) operates at scale.
- Diaspora-supported initiatives flow only through the Transparent Reconstruction framework: verified contributors, public dashboards, audit trails, misuse reporting, named local oversight (women's councils, elders, youth representatives).
- Quarterly published metrics: jobs created, schools reopened, hectares restored to production, libraries opened, businesses registered.
TemplateWorld Bank–UN Pathways for Peace (2018); Bangsamoro Normalisation Annex.
Verification and political maturity
- Provincial Council elections held — these have not been held in the North or East since 2014 (OHCHR A/HRC/60/21).
- 13th Amendment implemented in full or replaced by a stronger devolution settlement negotiated under public process.
- An external verification body (UN OHCHR field presence, Commonwealth observers, or a Helsinki-AMM-type hybrid) publishes a final compliance report.
- UK Magnitsky designations under SI 2020/680 reviewed against the verified record.
TemplateHelsinki MoU + AMM final report (2006); Kosovo Standards Before Status.
What runs through every phase
- ·Verification — an external body publishes, never narrates. Helsinki had AMM. Kosovo had EULEX. Bangsamoro has IDB and TPMT. The North-East would need its named equivalent before Phase 1 begins.
- ·Public dashboards — every promise becomes a row in a public table with status and date.
- ·Risk register — spoilers (nationalist backlash, electoral exploitation, military faction resistance, regional anxieties) named in advance with named mitigations.
- ·Tamil/Sinhala/English equality of record — every public document published in all three languages on the same day.
What this page is. What it isn't.
This is a civic operational schema, drawn from public templates, offered to anyone (FCDO, MPs, APPG for Tamils, civil society, diaspora) who needs to argue what after demilitarisationactually looks like.
This is not a TLTE programme, a state, an armed structure, a charity, or an investment scheme. TLTE does not police, hold land, broker contracts, or run reconstruction. The framework describes a sequence — civilians, councils, cooperatives, and verified external bodies do the work.