How a Pack is Built
Every MP Evidence Pack follows the same discipline. The pack is the artefact; the discipline is the contract. For the wider framing — how MP Packs sit inside the architecture as a whole — read The Architecture.
Sourcing order — Tier A first
- Tier A — UN bodies (OHCHR, UN Panel of Experts, UN Human Rights Council resolutions, UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances), International Court of Justice, ICRC.
- Tier B — Established international NGOs with documented Sri Lanka work: International Crisis Group, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch.
- Tier C — Specialist accountability organisations: ITJP, PEARL, Adayaalam, Oakland Institute.
- Tier D — Peer-reviewed journalism (FT, Guardian, NYT, BBC, Al Jazeera English) and academic publications.
Diaspora analysis, blogs, and social posts are context, never anchors. Every policy ask must rest on at least one Tier-A or Tier-B citation.
Two-layer framing — mandatory
Every pack shows both layers, side by side:
- Now (Aarambam) — what is true today: the live UK position, the open UN file, what the FCDO has and has not said.
- Becoming (Nilaiththanmai) — the civilisational target: what an honest, repaired settlement would look like.
UK Lobbying Act 2014 — transparency
TLTE is not a registered consultant lobbyist. Packs are public-interest civic documents. We do not coordinate statements with MPs. We do not receive payment from any government. Every pack carries this notice on its first screen.
UK Terrorism Act 2000 §12 — historical framing
The LTTE is a proscribed organisation in the United Kingdom. TLTE does not support, invite support for, or arrange meetings on behalf of any proscribed organisation. Historical references to the LTTE in packs are limited to documented Tier-A historical record (UN PoE 2011, OHCHR OISL 2015), framed as history, never as endorsement or recruitment.
What packs will never do
- Never name an individual perpetrator. The UN bodies and accountability organisations name; TLTE cites them.
- Never name a survivor, family of the disappeared, or named complainant.
- Never aggregate CRSV, disappearance, or fisher-incident counts. Cite the originating body verbatim.
- Never assert any contested historical claim (e.g. about May 2009 final stages) as settled fact.
- Never accept survivor testimony, complaints, or evidence intake through the pack. All routes go to PEARL, ITJP, OHCHR, OMP, UN CED, UK 999.
- Never frame Tamil civilian harm without acknowledging Sinhala and Muslim civilian harm where the same Tier-A sources document it.
The pack lifecycle
- Draft — Archon-tier staff assemble citations and draft text in the internal queue.
- Two-Archon review — Every pack requires sign-off from two Archons before publication.
- Velicham eval — A grounding eval is run against the pack to confirm the AI assistant answers safely on its content.
- Publish — Pack goes live at /mp-packs/pack/<slug> with append-only revision log.
- Track — Statements tracker and PQ library record each MP who carries the pack into the chamber.