TLTE Institute for Accountability,
Memory & Forensic Justice
"A grave may be shallow. The suppression is not."
TLTE begins its public accountability work with Chemmani — because no future for a people can be built while their dead remain unnamed and their families remain unanswered. This Institute does not replace courts, families, forensic experts, or human-rights bodies. It builds the public accountability layer that keeps the truth visible, the evidence organised, and the demand alive.
Count Them. Name Them. Protect the Truth.
The accountability architecture
Each desk inherits the discipline of its parent organ. The Institute is the surface that lets them speak together on a single case file.
Chemmani Accountability Desk
First active case file. Court-supervised mass-grave excavations in Jaffna.
Mass Grave Science Desk
Forensic explainers — DNA, bones, chain of custody, children's remains.
Missing Persons & Family Truth Desk
Right to truth. Referral discipline. No testimony intake.
Legal & International Standards Desk
Mass-grave protocol, right to truth, evidence preservation under international law.
Live Accountability Dashboard
Silence metrics — days since last update, institutions contacted vs responded.
Civic Education & Media Desk
Tamil/English forensic explainer set. School and youth education packs.
International Action & MP Pack Desk
Parliamentary pressure, UN/OHCHR submissions, embassy briefings.
Before governance, accountability.
TLTE is a stateless civilisational framework. It will, in time, speak about citizenship, the Min economy, the VinMin Charter, and the shape of an Eelam Hybrid Nation. None of that comes first.
The first task is the order that earns trust: count the dead, name them, protect the truth. The diaspora has been asked to remember for forty years. The next ask should be to stand.
The Witness Pledge at the Chemmani Desk is TLTE's first path gate. It records nothing about you and counts nothing about the dead. It only records that, in this era-week, you chose to stand.
The Depth of Suppression framework
Not just grave depth. Five layers — physical, spatial, time, institutional, memory — through which any mass-atrocity case file can be read.
Read the framework