தமிழர் தன்னாட்சி — சட்ட ஆவணம்Tamil Self-Determination — The Legal Case
The Tamil self-determination question is a live matter of international law. It is anchored in Article 1 common to the ICCPR and ICESCR, in UNDRIP (2007), and in the case-law of the Aaland Islands opinion (1921), the Canadian Supreme Court's Quebec Reference (1998), and the ICJ's Kosovo Advisory Opinion (2010). The remedial-secession doctrine — that external self-determination may arise where internal self-determination is denied and grave violations go unremedied — is the frame the archive works within. TLTE is not a state and not a party. It is a stateless civilisational archive maintained under United Kingdom jurisdiction.
The file so far
- SpineThe Case File — full spine
Nine sections plus three article archives.
- DossierRemedial Self-Determination Law
Quebec Reference, Kosovo AO, Aaland, Katangese, UN Charter, ICCPR Art 1, UNDRIP.
- DossierRemedial self-determination — framing
How the doctrine is invoked and where scholars disagree.
- DossierCivilisational Foundation
Sangam → Chola → Jaffna Kingdom → Eastern Tamils → Malaiyaha → diaspora.
- DossierThe Hybrid-Nation doctrine
Homeland + diaspora ecumene, Charter-bound, no-standing-army.
Sources cited
Tier-A only. Every load-bearing claim on this hub is anchored to a source below.
- International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Article 1 (1966) — United Nations Treaty Collection
- United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (2007) — United Nations
- Reference re Secession of Quebec, [1998] 2 SCR 217 — Supreme Court of Canada
- Accordance with international law of the unilateral declaration of independence in respect of Kosovo — ICJ Advisory Opinion (2010) — International Court of Justice
- Report of the International Committee of Jurists — Aaland Islands question (1920) — League of Nations Commission of Jurists