TLTE does not run a field-research operation on conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV) or enforced disappearance. The work below is external — drawn from the United Nations, the Global Survivors Fund, the International Truth & Justice Project, PEARL, Adayaalam, Human Rights Watch and frontline Tamil journalism.
Reproduced here so the public can see the order of magnitude of the harm and the institutional record that already exists. Magalir Avai cites; it does not duplicate, aggregate, or speak over.
UN Human Rights Office paper on accountability for conflict-related sexual violence in Sri Lanka. Highlights that CRSV remains largely unaddressed and that survivors face structural barriers to justice.
Source recordComprehensive UN investigation. Documents patterns of CRSV against Tamil women and girls during and after the armed conflict; calls for international accountability mechanisms.
Source recordThe first authoritative UN account of credible allegations of mass civilian casualties and gendered harm in the final phase of the war.
Source recordSurvivor-centred reparations analysis citing specific incidents (e.g. Vishvamadu, June 2010) and the absence of meaningful state remedy.
Source recordYasmin Sooka's archive — 180+ documented post-war torture and CRSV cases. The benchmark survivor-evidence dossier for the conflict.
Source recordDocuments the women-led roadside protest beginning 20 February 2017 in Kilinochchi and the broader enforced-disappearance archive.
Source recordReports on the seventh anniversary of the Tamil Families of the Disappeared roadside protest; multiple participating mothers have since died waiting for answers.
Source recordField-research on the impact of sustained military presence on women in the North-East: livelihood loss, surveillance, and gendered harm.
Source recordDetailed report on sexual violence against Tamil detainees by Sri Lankan security forces.
Source recordPublic-pressure campaign for disclosure of the names of those handed over to the Sri Lankan state in May 2009.
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