How to use this archive.

The archive is structured to be cited in peer-reviewed work. Every claim is traceable to a Tier-A source: UN OHCHR; the UN Panel of Experts report on Sri Lanka (2011); the OHCHR Investigation on Sri Lanka (OISL, 2015); International Crisis Group; Amnesty International; Human Rights Watch; ITJP; PEARL; Adayaalam; CPJ; RSF; Oakland Institute; World Bank KNOMAD; FATF/APG; and cognate bodies. No proprietary or unverifiable source is admitted.

Citation infrastructure. A public citation registry of 161+ entries carries source type, publication date, retrieval date, and primary URL. Each entry has a permanent tlte-cite: identifier and a stable in-page anchor. The named research method is the Archive-of-Trust Method (preprint v1.0.0, DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20430548) — citable in OSCOLA, Chicago 17, or Harvard. See /research/preprint.

Methodological frames. The OSINT discipline is aligned to the Berkeley Protocol on Digital Open Source Investigations (OHCHR + UC Berkeley HRC, 2nd ed., 2022). Survivor-touching work defers to the Murad Code. Civilian-protection doctrine references the UCP Manual 2nd ed. Two-layer architecture (Now/Becoming) provides a periodisation frame for accountability-gap literature reviews.

Reproducibility. The Velicham AI assistant is accompanied by a public evaluation suite (VINMIN-Bench, 83+ hand-verified Q/A cases). Independent researchers can replicate query-response fidelity without back-end access. Falsifiability conditions for each desk are published — a property most grey-literature sources do not offer.

For supervisors today. Direct students to the 10 MP Evidence Packs, the 63 Case articles, the 109-law Diaspora Law Index, and the seven Unmai desks. Each is internally cross-referenced to the citation registry. See /research/for-universities for research-area fit and collaboration models.

What the archive is and is not. It is a secondary citation aggregator and Berkeley-Protocol-aligned OSINT mirror. It does not hold original documents, does not conduct intake, and does not issue witness statements. These distinctions are legally significant and stated in the published Charter.

UK asylum tribunals and judicial review. In proceedings before the First-tier Tribunal (IAC) and the Upper Tribunal, country-background evidence drawn from OHCHR, HRW, Amnesty and ICG is routinely admitted under Joint Presidential Guidance Note No. 2 of 2010. The registry entries — linking directly to those Tier-A sources with retrieval metadata — can be submitted as an annotated bundle. Legal representatives should extract the underlying Tier-A document for direct exhibit and cite the registry entry in their skeleton argument as the tracing audit.

Civil recovery (POCA 2002 / UWO). The Diaspora Economy pack and FATF/APG materials can support civil litigation teams mapping financial flows. These materials do not constitute financial intelligence; primary disclosure must be obtained through POCA Part 8 orders.

European Court of Human Rights. The archive's documented, methodology-stated, Tier-A-sourced structure satisfies the admissibility standard for third-party intervener submissions under Rule 44 of the Rules of Court.

ICJ third-party intervention. Under Articles 62/63 of the ICJ Statute, states intervening in proceedings touching Sri Lanka's international obligations may use the UN PoE 2011 and OISL 2015 citation clusters to construct the factual annexes required under the Rules of Court.

Universal jurisdiction. In Germany (VStGB), France (CPP Art. 689-11), and Argentina (post-Scilingo), the archive supplies pattern-of-conduct documentation from OHCHR and ITJP to support contextual elements of war-crimes and crimes-against-humanity charges. It is a bibliography-generation tool — primary sources must be retrieved for annexure. The archive does not name perpetrators.

ICC Article 15 communications. The Press Freedom desk (CPJ/RSF) and Disappearances desk (WGEID, ITJP, Adayaalam) provide thematic clusters relevant to Article 7 contextual elements. The registry cross-references prior PEARL and ITJP Article 15 communications where publicly available, avoiding duplication.

UK Parliament. The 10 MP Evidence Packs are formatted for Members of Parliament and their researchers: Early Day Motions (factual recitals adapt directly into EDM wording), Written and Oral PQs (each pack's executive summary is a factual predicate), and Select Committee written evidence (the pack structure mirrors the standard template — numbered paragraphs, footnotes, executive summary). APPGs on Sri Lanka, Tamil Concerns or Human Rights can cite the Mandate Manifesto as methodological assurance to committee clerks.

European Parliament. The GSP+ pack is directly relevant to INTA and the DROI subcommittee. The revised GSP Regulation entering full effect 2027 requires the European Commission to assess beneficiaries against 27 international conventions; the archive's 27-row convention map supplies ready-made reference material.

US Congress. The Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission accepts written submissions from civil society. The Reconciliation Audit and Disappearances packs supply the factual architecture for submissions on Sri Lanka's compliance with conditions attached to prior Congressional resolutions.

Canadian, Australian, New Zealand Parliaments. Standing committees on foreign affairs and human rights accept written submissions. The two-layer architecture maps onto the standard submission format: Now = background facts; Becoming = emerging concerns and recommendations.

Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly. The Katchatheevu & Palk Strait pack provides documented source material relevant to Assembly resolutions and petitions concerning the 1974/1976 maritime boundary agreements. The pack never claims TLTE wants Katchatheevu returned and never aggregates fisher incident counts in its own voice.

OHCHR Sri Lanka Accountability Project. The citation registry was structured in part to interface with the OHCHR's evidence-preservation mandate under HRC Resolution 46/1 (2021). Submitters may use registry-entry format to document the chain of public-source retrieval.

HRC Universal Periodic Review. Sri Lanka's 4th UPR cycle (2027) will require stakeholder submissions. The Reconciliation Audit pack provides a pre-structured thematic mapping against the UPR three-pillar framework.

Treaty bodies. The archive covers CED (Disappearances desk), CAT (cross-referenced ITJP and OHCHR), ICCPR (Press Freedom + Demilitarisation), CERD (multi-community framing rule), CEDAW (survivor-pattern citations from ITJP without naming), and ICESCR (Diaspora Economy and Oakland Institute land-rights citations). Shadow-report drafters use registry entries as the footnote backbone, then annex primary documents per the relevant body's guidelines.

Special Procedures. Communications to the Special Rapporteur on Torture, WGEID, the SR on FoE, and the SR on Minority Issues should cite underlying Tier-A documents, using the registry to demonstrate retrieval discipline. The archive does not act as primary source.

UN Forum on Minority Issues. The multi-community framing rule — no desk presents Tamil harm as exclusive where evidence establishes shared impact — provides a ready basis for submissions addressing intersecting minority rights questions in Sri Lanka.

FATF / APG Mutual Evaluation. The Sri Lanka Mutual Evaluation process includes a civil-society consultation window. The archive's FATF/APG citation cluster documents prior APG findings on AML/CFT framework gaps. A draft civic submission template lives at /unmai/desk/diaspora-economy/apg-submission (citation-only, no named entities, structural observations, mirror-publish — the archive never transmits on a third party's behalf).

EU GSP+ monitoring (2027). The GSP+ pack is formatted to support written submissions to the Commission's Article 14 monitoring process. ILO CEACR findings, ICCPR compliance, and OHCHR reporting are clustered to match the Commission's three-convention-cluster template.

ILO CEACR. Workers' and employers' organisations entitled to submit observations may use the registry's ILO citations to supplement direct observations with cross-referenced human-rights findings.

UNESCO Memory of the World. The append-only changelog and versioned citation registry satisfy the documentary-heritage preservation criteria. A formal nomination requires additional institutional partnership; the current structure constitutes a technically compliant proof of concept.

ICRC dialogue. The archive does not participate in confidential ICRC dialogue. Public ICRC reports cited in the registry may be referenced by third parties in their own submissions.

Global Survivors Fund. ITJP and OHCHR citation clusters, filtered through the Disappearances and Mullivaikkal desks, supply pattern-of-conduct documentation supporting reparations eligibility arguments — without the archive itself conducting intake.

The archive functions as a citation backbone for investigative journalism. It does not grant exclusivity, does not conduct interviews, and does not serve as a source — it is a documented bibliography.

Permitted use. Journalists working for the Financial Times, The Guardian, BBC, Channel 4, Al Jazeera, Tamil Guardian, JDS Lanka and others may cite registry entries in footnotes, on-screen captions, or article source notes in the form: "Source tracing via Archive of Trust (TLTE), Citation Registry [entry], citing [Tier-A source]." This accurately represents the archive's intermediary role.

Attribution discipline. Findings belong to the Tier-A institution. The archive's contribution is the retrieval audit — demonstrating that the source existed, was accessible, and was retrieved on a documented date using a documented methodology. This insulates the journalist from claims of reliance on an unverifiable secondary source.

Documentary & broadcast. Productions requiring expert characterisation may cite the Mandate Manifesto and the Civic Protection Doctrine on-screen, and may request a written statement from the Archon panel confirming governance structure for use in credits.

MP letter templates. Each MP Evidence Pack includes a plain-language executive summary suitable for adaptation into a constituent letter. Factual recitals are pre-sourced — a constituent organisation can submit a letter that survives MP-researcher scrutiny without holding a law degree.

Mullivaikkal Remembrance (18 May). The Mullivaikkal pack provides documented basis for community Remembrance events. The pack's executive summary can be distributed as an educational handout. No casualty count is stated in TLTE's voice — all figures are attributed to UN PoE 2011 or OISL 2015 as they must be.

School and university curriculum supplements. Desks and Case articles are written to A-level and undergraduate reading standard. Sixth-form colleges, university Tamil societies, and community education programmes may use the materials as secondary citation source. The two-layer architecture teaches source-criticality as a pedagogical by-product.

Places of worship. Hindu temples, churches, mosques and multi-faith venues hosting community education on the Sri Lanka conflict may use the archive. The multi-community framing rule ensures the materials never present the conflict as binary Tamil/Sinhala, making them appropriate for multi-ethnic congregations.

The following functions are outside the mandate and will not be performed under any circumstances:

• ◆Naming perpetrators. Naming belongs to UN Panels, criminal courts, and properly constituted investigative bodies. The archive will not name individual alleged perpetrators.
• ◆Survivor intake. The archive holds no intake mechanism and no secure communications channel. Persons who have experienced harm are routed to ITJP, PEARL, Adayaalam, OHCHR, OMP, UN CED, ICRC, or UK 999.
• ◆Operational security advice. Falls outside the Civic Protection Doctrine, which is a documentation-methodology framework, not an operational security guide. Route to Access Now / Citizen Lab / CPJ / RSF / Rory Peck.
• ◆Risk forecasts. Risk assessment is a function of operational monitoring, not citation aggregation. No proprietary scoring.
• ◆Deployment or operational planning. Absolute prohibition aligned to UK Terrorism Act 2000 §12.
• ◆Single-number aggregation in TLTE's voice. Every numerical finding is attributed directly to the Tier-A source and reproduced only in that form.
• ◆Replacing UN mechanisms. The archive does not substitute for, compete with, or seek to supersede OHCHR, HRC, or other UN accountability mechanisms. Its purpose is to make those mechanisms more accessible.

• ◆Citation discipline. Every claim is traceable to a named Tier-A institution, a named document, a named publication date, and a named retrieval date. No anonymous sources. No proprietary databases. No internal findings presented as factual conclusions.
• ◆Two-layer architecture. Now / Becoming prevents conflation of established evidentiary findings with advocacy positions. Courts, treaty bodies, and parliamentary researchers can immediately identify which layer an assertion occupies.
• ◆Falsifiability conditions published. Each thematic desk states the conditions under which its characterisation would require revision — a property not commonly found in civil society documentation.
• ◆Charter governance. No founder override. No emergency powers. No permanent leaders. Amendments require two-Archon sign-off across different Councils.
• ◆Append-only changelog. No entry is silently modified. Corrections are logged as additions with explanation — satisfying chain-of-custody standards relevant to legal proceedings.
• ◆Multi-community framing rule. No desk presents Tamil harm as exclusive where evidence establishes shared impact. Protects against the credibility challenge that the archive is a partisan advocacy instrument.
• ◆Tier-A sourcing. Credibility is tethered to institutions whose methodologies are independently auditable. A challenge to an archive entry is in effect a challenge to the underlying OHCHR or HRW finding — a significantly higher bar.
• ◆Eval-replicable Velicham. VINMIN-Bench (83+ cases) is publicly replicable via /api/public/velicham-eval (key-gated). Any researcher or court expert can verify consistency.
• ◆Multi-mirror permanence. The preprint is deposited under a Multi-Mirror Protocol across three jurisdictionally distinct permanent archives (Zenodo / EU live; OSF / US and HAL / France pending). If any one platform suffers outage, removal pressure or governance change, the DOI on the others still resolves. Permanence is a structural claim, not a vendor promise.
• ◆UK legal posture. Structured to comply with UK Terrorism Act 2000 §12, Official Secrets Act 2023, UK GDPR + Data Protection Act 2018, Lobbying Act 2014 (CIC, not registered lobbyist), and Companies Act 2006.

The archive publishes the conditions under which its contents should be challenged, revised, or withdrawn. These are operational standards, not aspirational. Any researcher, journalist, court officer, or civil society body that identifies a potential failure condition is invited to raise it. The response will be documented in the public changelog regardless of outcome.

1. Source retraction. If a Tier-A source formally retracts or materially corrects a cited finding, the corresponding entry must be flagged and annotated within 30 days of the retraction becoming publicly available.
2. Methodological misrepresentation. If a Tier-A source finding is characterised inconsistently with the source's own conclusions, the mischaracterisation must be corrected via the append-only changelog with a full explanatory note.
3. Prohibited content publication. If any desk or article is found to contain the name of a perpetrator, identifying detail of a survivor, or an aggregate count in TLTE's voice, the content must be removed and the governance failure documented in the public changelog.
4. Proscription breach. If any content glorifies, supports, or provides material assistance to a proscribed organisation within the meaning of UK Terrorism Act 2000 §12, content must be immediately withdrawn, the Archon panel must convene within 72 hours, and the CIC's legal advisers must be notified.
5. Tier-A source degradation. If a previously Tier-A institution is found by a competent body to have materially compromised its methodological standards, the Archon panel must conduct a formal review of all citations within 90 days and publish findings.
6. Charter override. Any decision affecting archive content taken without two-Archon sign-off has no standing and must be reversed. Evidence of founder override constitutes grounds for referral to the CIC Regulator.
7. Velicham eval failure. If independent replication of VINMIN-Bench produces results materially inconsistent with published benchmark scores, the Archon panel must commission a technical audit and publish results before the assistant resumes public-facing operation.