The Mandate After Mullivaikkal — the unclaimed succession

Flagship /case/ article anchoring TLTE's structural position. Applies a three-test standard to every post-2009 succession claim — (1) leader approval (authenticated public successor designation by V. Prabhakaran pre-19 May 2009 — none in public record; the May 2009 'final statement' has not been forensically authenticated, leader-approval score 0/5); (2) institutional approval (verifiable published succession protocol — none disclosed); (3) people approval (internationally-supervised election among homeland NEP + Up-country + diaspora with named monitors / observer reports / voter rolls — none held; TGTE 'internationally supervised' framing uncorroborated by Carter Centre / Commonwealth / OSCE-ODIHR / EU EOM / ANFREL). Classifies post-2009 bodies agency-first into A (PEARL, ITJP, Adayaalam, UTHR(J), TCSF — civic/accountability, no representation claim), B (BTF, GTF, CTC, USTPAC — registered civic associations with internal-member mandate only), C (TGTE — representational claim, evidence not produced), D (proscription/legal-recovery file at /case/ltte-era/legal-recovery-pathways). Conclusion: the representational seat is forensically EMPTY; only continuous mandate-holder is the Eelam Tamil people themselves. Hard rules: NEVER name any body as legitimate successor mandate-holder; NEVER denigrate Category A/B honest civic work; NEVER adjudicate the human-shield question either way (Tier-A record documents credible allegations vs both parties, no forensic determination of whether LTTE held civilians or civilians sheltered with LTTE from SLA shelling — both can be simultaneously partly true); NEVER claim TLTE holds the mandate (see /on-what-authority). Anchors Vaddukoddai 1976 + 1977 electoral mandate (only authenticated post-independence Tamil mandate, extinguished by Sixth Amendment 1983). After Mullivaikkal, the cause returned to the people.