On what authority
TLTE speaks with the authority of UK law, its Charter, its cited evidence, and the people who freely choose to sit inside it — and with the authority of having published, in advance, the conditions under which it would be wrong.
A diaspora project that touches sovereignty, memory, and accountability must answer one question before any other: on what authority does it speak? The honest answer is short. TLTE claims five authorities. It refuses six others. And it publishes, in advance, the conditions under which any of its own claims would become false.
This page is part of the Boundary Statement series — read alongside the VinMin Charter, the 21 Roots, and the Continuity Protocol.
TLTE operates as a UK Community Interest Company (Co. No. 16426152), regulated by the CIC Regulator and Companies House. Every public claim is made within UK Terrorism Act 2000 §12 academic-discussion protections, GDPR/UK-DPA data-protection law, and the Equality Act 2010. We have no extraterritorial authority. We do not act for, or in lieu of, any government.
Legal positioningInside the archive, authority is procedural. The Seven Sacred Rules and the Twenty-One Roots bind every member equally — including the founder. The Three Core Laws (Distributed Authority, Reversibility, Visible Process) prevent any single person, council, or office holding final say. No founder override. No emergency powers. No permanent leaders.
The 21 RootsEvery controversial claim resolves to a permanent tlte-cite: identifier. Tier A = peer-reviewed / primary archive / institutional record (UN Panel of Experts, OHCHR OISL, ICG, Amnesty, PEARL, ITJP). Tier B = strong secondary. Tier C = open question. We do not assert facts in our own voice that are not anchored to a public source another researcher can reach.
Citation RegistryTLTE speaks only for those who, of their own choosing, sit inside its Councils and accept its Charter. It does not claim to speak for the Tamil people, the Eelam Tamil people, the diaspora, the homeland, or any community. Where we say "we", we mean the Council members who carry the responsibility, not a nation.
Accountable StewardshipEvery operational claim is paired with the conditions under which it would be false. The Two-Layer rule (Now / Becoming) forces honesty about the gap between published canon and present capability. The Continuity Protocol, the Stewardship Register, the Recall Dry-Run, and the Institutional Reception Ledger exist so that the structure can be tested against itself, in public.
TransparencyTLTE makes no territorial claim, issues no passports, collects no taxes, runs no elections for office, and speaks for no state, government, or government-in-exile.
TLTE does not continue, inherit, archive, or rehabilitate the LTTE or any armed formation. Where the war is documented (Critical Research Dossier 04), it is documented through UN PoE 2011, OHCHR OISL 2015, ICG 2010 and Amnesty 2011 — never through glorification, never through survival claims.
TLTE C.I.C. is not a registered charity. It does not solicit donations, does not run appeals, and does not issue gift-aid receipts. The Min credit is an internal contribution unit — not a currency, not a security, not transferable.
There is no leader, no founder-with-final-say, no chairperson, no president, no life seat. If anyone presents themselves publicly as "the leader of TLTE", that claim is outside the Charter and is not TLTE's position.
We refuse "trust us — we know". Decisions and their rationales are published. Identities and vulnerability maps are not. The inverse of opaque governance, and also the inverse of surveillance-style radical transparency.
Across all Unmai desks: no intake, no naming, no counts, no verdicts, no HUMINT, no glorification, no surveillance. Investigation belongs to OHCHR, ITJP, PEARL, OMP, Mnemonic, UN CED, and accredited courts. We mirror their published work; we do not duplicate or replace it.
Authority that cannot be tested is not authority — it is assertion. The following are the published failure conditions. Each is checkable by any reader, at any time, without our cooperation.
The tagline "Power Without Capture" becomes a lie and must be publicly retired. The Charter requires this — not goodwill.
It belongs in the Lab as in-formation, or it must be removed. The Tier system exists precisely so the reader can grade us in real time.
It has breached its own Seven Sins (Unmai) or the Magalir Avai safety framework, and the breach is itself appealable through the Stewardship Register.
It has overridden its own published precondition. The Gates (DPO, DPIA, independent legal review, two-Archon rule, indemnity, partner hand-off) are all open this era — and the page admits it.
TLTE has the authority of a UK civic-research institution that publishes its rules, cites its evidence, distributes its power, and tells you in advance how to catch it failing. It has no other authority. It claims no other authority. Where you find a claim in our archive that exceeds these five sources, treat it as a breach to be reported, not a fact to be repeated.
The founder is currently seeking doctoral supervision (MPhil/PhD, 2026 entry) on the question of diaspora-built civic infrastructure as transitional-justice practice. Supervisor-facing brief: /research/for-supervisors.
"Authority that refuses to publish its own failure conditions is not authority — it is performance."