The Laboratory
Sri Lanka's north-east was not only a war zone. Between 1972 and 2009 it was a testing ground where international suppliers, state counter-insurgency doctrines, non-state innovations, and rival Tamil political experiments were all run in parallel. The Laboratory audits the tests, grades every claim against Tier-A sources, and holds every attribution gap open. Nothing here strengthens or weakens the self-determination case by rhetoric — the case is procedural before it is political.
Walk a claim through the Laboratory's four-tier grade with sources revealed step by step.
Filterable orbit of Tamil political organisations 1972–2009 — the plurality erased by the monoculture reading.
Paste a URL and a claim — the verifier grades the host against the Tier-A allowlist.
The 1990 Chennai Node
NEPC unilateral declaration (1 March 1990) → Padmanabha assassination in Chennai (19 June 1990) → Rajiv Gandhi assassination (21 May 1991) → the RAW pivot. Twelve months. Three events. One durable structural effect on Tamil politics and on India's Sri Lanka posture. Read as an audit — individual attribution held distinct from any organisational verdict.
Read the 1990 Node →Twelve desks
4 live · 8 queued · AarambamWho supplied what — arms, aircraft, UAVs, training — to whom, between 1983 and 2009.
How Sri Lanka's north-east functioned as a testbed for counter-insurgency doctrines and unmanned-systems adoption.
Norway (2002–08) · India (1987) · Co-Chairs · every mediation the war produced and why each ended.
How UK/EU/US/India proscription of the LTTE reshaped diaspora political space — and its procedural after-life.
Who did what — graded, not asserted. The 1990 Node lives here.
Seven procedural anchors, read against Chagos, Kosovo, and the Quebec Reference.
TELO · EPRLF · PLOTE · EROS · EPDP · TMVP — the plurality the monoculture reading erases.
The October 1990 expulsion of the Northern Muslim community — a wound the archive holds without minimisation.
Malaiyaha Tamils during 1983–2009 — labour, curfew, and the structural distance from the northern war.
How the information environment of the war was shaped — proscription, embedding, and the killing of journalists.
The civic instruments the diaspora built after the war — TGTE, TNC, GTF, PEARL, ITJP, and the archive you are reading.
An open register — the civic tests the archive expects to be forced to run over the next decade.
The 12-point origin brief · five parallel research sweeps · the Three-Body Attribution Cluster that made the Laboratory necessary.
The four-tier scale. The seven refusals. The rule that every finding must strengthen the self-determination case — including findings that look, at first, like they weaken it.