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Source dossier

Every claim, traced to its source

The petition brief at /security-without-safety uses citation IDs in superscript footnotes. This page resolves every ID to a tiered, linked source. Tier A is UN or state-issued. Tier B is established human-rights NGO or recognised journalism. Tier C is primary-source memoir and is always paired on the brief with a Tier-A counterweight.

Tier A — UN / state
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Tier B — NGO / journalism
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Tier C — primary-source / contested
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Tier A — UN / state
[A1]13 January 2026

"We Lost Everything – Even Hope For Justice" — Accountability for Conflict-Related Sexual Violence in Sri Lanka

OHCHR (UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights)
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TLTE use rule

Strongest single Tier-A citation on the petition page. Quoted verbatim. We do NOT add a TLTE estimate of survivor numbers.

Key citable lines
  • "Militarisation and emergency legal frameworks have created an environment in which gender-based violence — including sexual violence — continued to be reported after the conflict."
  • "An enduring climate of surveillance, intimidation, and harassment, contributing to under-reporting, deep stigma, and the near-absence of effective remedies."
  • "Sexual violence is a torture that never stops."
[A2]16 September 2015

Report of the OHCHR Investigation on Sri Lanka (OISL) — A/HRC/30/CRP.2

OHCHR
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TLTE use rule

Foundation for the legal-defensibility section. We never claim 'the army committed war crimes' — we cite OISL's finding of 'reasonable grounds to believe' gross violations occurred, by all parties.

Key citable lines
  • "There are reasonable grounds to believe that gross violations of international human rights law, serious violations of international humanitarian law and international crimes were committed by all parties during the period under review."
  • "Many of the allegations may, if established before a court of law, amount to war crimes and/or crimes against humanity."
[A3]31 March 2011

Report of the Secretary-General's Panel of Experts on Accountability in Sri Lanka (Darusman Report)

United Nations
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TLTE use rule

Essential to the counter-argument section. Documents allegations against BOTH the Government of Sri Lanka and the LTTE. The page presents LTTE harms in the same sentence-weight as Government harms.

Key citable lines
  • "Up to 40,000 civilian deaths in the final months of the war (paragraph 137)."
  • "Findings against the LTTE: use of civilians as human shields, forced recruitment including of children, killing civilians attempting to flee."
  • "Findings against the Government: widespread shelling causing large civilian deaths, shelling of UN hub / hospitals / 'no fire zones,' summary executions, sexual violence, torture."
[A4]2024

Analytical Overview of Drug-related Arrests in Sri Lanka — 2024

National Dangerous Drugs Control Board (Government of Sri Lanka)
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TLTE use rule

CRITICAL: NDDCB data REFUTES any 'North-East is drug capital' framing in raw and per-capita terms. Northern Province total = 3,806 vs Western Province = 156,512. The page therefore makes a governance-failure claim, not a quantity claim.

Key citable lines
  • "Jaffna 2,063 · Vavuniya 799 · Mullaitivu 311 · Kilinochchi 231 · Northern Province total 3,806."
  • "Eastern Province total 4,833 · Western Province total 156,512 · Sri Lanka island total 228,450."
[A5]June 2025

Statement of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk — June 2025 Sri Lanka visit and 2025 Annual Report

OHCHR / United Nations
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TLTE use rule

Most current Tier-A statement available to a UK Member of Parliament. Use for the 'Why this petition, why now' section.

Key citable lines
  • "Sri Lanka has struggled to move forward with domestic accountability mechanisms that are credible and have the trust and confidence of victims."
  • "An absence of justice will undermine the stability of peace."
  • "Impunity remains entrenched, and the structural conditions that led to past violations persist."
Tier B — NGO / journalism
[B1]February 2025

A Phantom that is Real: Persisting Culture of Surveillance and Intimidation in the North-East

Adayaalam Centre for Policy Research (ACPR)
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TLTE use rule

Strongest single Tier-B source on the page. Spine of the surveillance and memorialisation sections. Cited by HRW (Sept 2025).

Key citable lines
  • "The narrative of post-war peace and stability is in stark contrast to the true condition of the Northern and Eastern Provinces."
  • "Once you are seen as a target, you will be subjected to constant surveillance, intimidation, and interrogation with little cause or restraint."
  • "Tamil journalist, Mullaitivu: 'They monitor our comings and goings; know all our network; have individual profiles on us.'"
[B2]26 September 2025

Letter to Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Sri Lanka human rights

Human Rights Watch (signed by Elaine Pearson, Asia Director, and Kanae Doi, Japan Director)
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TLTE use rule

Second pillar of the page. Where a claim sits in both A1/A2 and B2, prefer the OHCHR Tier-A citation in the visible footnote.

Key citable lines
  • "Impunity for past atrocities and grave rights violations persists amidst ongoing intimidation and surveillance of victims and activists in war-affected areas."
  • "Human-rights defender, Batticaloa: 'Every day the police are visiting my house.'"
  • "Woman in Trincomalee: 'Sometimes they approach our children to get information about us. That is a type of threat.'"
  • "By late July 2025 the remains of over 100 people, including children, suspected to have been victims of extra-judicial killings by the Sri Lankan army, had been discovered… At least 20 mass graves have been discovered throughout the island."
  • "Sri Lanka has one of the world's highest rates of enforced disappearances, numbering in the tens of thousands."
[B3]14 November 2021 · 2015

Tamils allege rise in drugs across North-East facilitated by Sri Lankan state · Wigneswaran 2015 statement

Tamil Guardian
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TLTE use rule

Marked 'Alleged' on the public page. Community testimony amplified by an elected former Chief Minister and corroborated by state-criminal arrests of PNB officers.

Key citable lines
  • "Tamil locals state that various gangs are involved in illegal activities within the areas of Mullaitivu and that Sri Lankan security forces, including the police, are assisting these groups."
  • "These activities are happening despite the area being heavily militarised and under intense surveillance by Sri Lankan intelligence forces."
  • "C.V. Wigneswaran (2015): Tamil youth are being pushed into drugs and prostitution with the help of the Sri Lankan military."
[B4]March 2022 · January 2026

State-Sponsored Sinhalization of the North-East · The Anti-Development Machine

PEARL (People for Equality and Relief in Lanka)
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TLTE use rule

Secondary citation for land dispossession, Buddhisation of Hindu sites, militarised economic development. Paired with HRW B2 and ACPR B1.

[B5]October 2017

Normalising the Abnormal: The Militarisation of Mullaitivu

PEARL · Adayaalam Centre for Policy Research
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TLTE use rule

Historical baseline for troop-to-civilian ratios in Mullaitivu district. Marked as 2017 data — not presented as current.

[B6]2015

The Long Shadow of War: The Struggle for Justice in Postwar Sri Lanka

Oakland Institute (Anuradha Mittal)
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TLTE use rule

Non-Tamil, US-based independent source documenting the same patterns Tamil sources report. Important for source diversity.

Tier C — primary-source / contested
[C1]2012Paired with [A3]

A Fleeting Moment in My Country: The Last Years of the LTTE De-Facto State

N. Malathy · Clarity Press
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TLTE use rule

STRICT USE RULE: insider observer. Used ONLY on the single measurable outcome of women's institutional participation, ALWAYS paired with UN PoE 2011 (A3) findings against the same authority. Never standalone evidence of LTTE virtue.

Key citable lines
  • "On Vanni institutions: 'There was every institution you could think a state should have plus more… a police force that had nearly half representation of women, a court force that had half representation of women.'"
  • "On the post-2009 loss: 'To me it's the loss of what women have gained that's really painful. It strikes you.'"
[C2]2001Paired with [A3]

Island of Blood: Frontline Reports from Sri Lanka, Afghanistan and other South Asian Flashpoints

Anita Pratap · Penguin India
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TLTE use rule

Cited only for descriptive observations of the de-facto state's public order. Marked Alleged / Tier C; paired with A3 UN PoE.

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