Critical Research
A citation-anchored dossier series on the structural history of Tamil Eelam. Each dossier is permanent, append-only, and tied to a public source through the tlte-cite: namespace. Together they form one continuous argument: that what was lost can be rebuilt — not through hatred, not through myth, but through documents, systems, and collective memory.
British Ceylon, Tamil institutional power, and the lost knowledge framework. The structural reframe: the hidden thing is not one secret — it is the pattern.
How a million Hill-Country Tamils were made stateless by statute within months of independence — and the fifty-five-year road back to citizenship.
Devolution promised, devolution withheld. The 1987 treaty, the Thirteenth Amendment, the IPKF years, and the merger that the Supreme Court undid in 2006.
The official record of May 2009, and the unresolved truth-process questions documented by the UN Panel of Experts (2011) and the OHCHR OISL Report (2015). Records what was announced — and what was never independently verified.
Open, two-layer statement of the lawful sequence from a UK civil-society petition to a registered political vehicle — and the firewall that keeps TLTE separate from it.
How TLTE's research, archive, and continuity infrastructure can be lawfully licensed across democratic jurisdictions — many vehicles, one documented spine, owned by no one.
Cross-link: the canonical home is the live Unmai Attribution Desk and the Case · LTTE Era sub-spine, because UNSG CAAC Annexes and UNICEF figures continue to revise the year-by-year picture. Held outside the closed series so the citation discipline stays honest.
Long-form research dossier behind the Vadakkilangai Graduate Return spine. Reads the youth-unemployment and out-migration pattern as a structural consequence of militarisation and PTA enforcement.
Civic, legal, evidence-led dossier on the institutional accountability gap around senior Buddhist clergy in Sri Lanka — Article 9 architecture, Tier-A criminal cases at the arrest/charge/bail/suspension stage, monk-led mobilisation preceding documented anti-minority violence, contested temple land in the North-East, OHCHR responses, and in-tradition self-critique. No names in TLTE's voice; no aggregate counts.
Citation-anchored study of economic, fiscal, monetary, and administrative continuity in northern and eastern Ceylon — Sangam-age trade contact, the Jaffna Kingdom Setu coinage (c.1284–1410), Portuguese tombo administration, Dutch thombo registers, the 1707 codification of Thesawalamai and Mukkuva law, and measurement units that crossed three colonial regimes. Institutional continuity, not a sovereignty argument.
- 09The Sinhala Only Act & Educational Standardisation (1956–1977)
- 10The 1972 Republic & The Death of Section 29
- 11Internal Failures — Caste, Dissent, the 1990 Northern Muslim Expulsion
Dossiers ship when the citation work is complete, not on a calendar. The series is deliberately slow — every claim must survive a hostile reader.
The series is held together by the tlte-cite: namespace. Every cited source is permanently resolvable at docs.tlte.cloud/cite/<slug> — the URL never moves, even if the original source rots. The registry currently holds 667 editorially-verified sources across the series.
The Velicham assistant is grounded on this corpus. Ask it about Section 29, the Citizenship Acts, the Jaffna Library, or the constitutional ladder, and its answers will cite back into these dossiers.
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