இராணுவ விலக்கம் — சான்று மேசை
The civic file for the first petition on demilitarisation of the Tamil North-East. Every claim made by the state is held against every counter-finding from independent monitors, the UN, journalism, diaspora and allied communities. None of it requires anyone on the ground to take a risk.
An evidence ledger. State announcements, independent reports, UN findings — all cited, archived and append-only. No intake. No naming. No counts.
A formal Petition Evidence Pack — versioned, signed, hash-anchored, deliverable to courts, UN bodies and parliaments in the diaspora's host states.
The Sri Lankan state has produced its own contradiction. It announces every land release. It tables every defence budget. It pledges downsizing by 2030. We do not need to surveil anyone — we need to hold the state's own voice against the state's own evidence, anchored by independent monitors and free public satellite data.
That is what this desk does. Nothing more. Nothing covert.
remaining in Jaffna / Kilinochchi HSZs alone (per The Island)
surveillance & intimidation pattern (Adayaalam, 2024–25)
No editorial verdict. The gap is the finding. Numbers shown only where the state itself has published them.
Every entry has a source URL. Most have an archive URL. New entries are appended; existing entries are never edited.
Militarisation in the Tamil North-East is bound to networks that reach far beyond Eelam. This desk records those connections — without speaking for any community.
Locked. Non-removable. Audit us against this list.
Unmai does not accept survivor or witness reports. The bodies below are built for it.
Stable citation IDs in the tlte-cite: namespace. Each link resolves to a permanent record at docs.tlte.cloud/cite/<slug> with title, publisher, archive URL, and reuse guidance.
tlte-cite:un-poe-2011Foundational UN expert finding of credible allegations of serious violations by both parties in the final stages of the war. Anchor for the Petition-01 accountability case.
tlte-cite:ohchr-oisl-2015Detailed UN human-rights investigation establishing patterns of unlawful killings, disappearances, sexual violence, and indiscriminate attacks. Cited across most Unmai desks as the Tier-A backbone.
tlte-cite:icg-asia-209Post-war assessment of military presence, land occupation, and the failure of reconciliation mechanisms in the North-East.
tlte-cite:amnesty-old-ghosts-2021Documents the post-2019 re-militarisation of the North-East under presidential securitisation policy.
tlte-cite:oakland-long-shadowField investigation of land occupation, militarisation, and demographic engineering in the post-war North-East.
tlte-cite:oakland-endless-warUpdated documentation of state land-grab patterns, archaeology-led Sinhalisation, and ongoing dispossession in Tamil-majority districts.
tlte-cite:berkeley-protocol-2022International standard for OSINT-as-evidence. TLTE adopts chain-of-custody, hash + timestamp + source-archive on every Unmai artefact.
tlte-cite:sipri-milex-lkaStanding peer-reviewed dataset on Sri Lanka's military expenditure as % of GDP and % of government spending. Used in the Observatory's Honesty Index — never as a TLTE-produced figure.
tlte-cite:iiss-military-balance-2024Authoritative annual reference for active personnel, reserves and paramilitary strength by country. Cited alongside PEARL and Adayaalam in the Honesty Index — every figure carries its source and its disagreement, never a single number in TLTE voice.
tlte-cite:adayaalam-reportsJaffna-based policy-research centre. Tier-A reports on militarisation and demilitarisation of the North-East, women in post-war contexts, land questions including military occupation and archaeology-driven dispossession, and post-war political-settlement questions. Operating inside the North-East — carries documentary risk that diaspora bodies do not. The case file defers to Adayaalam on every question where on-the-ground research is needed.
tlte-cite:pearlUS-based diaspora policy-research and Hill-advocacy organisation. Successive Tier-A reports on Sinhalisation (Withering Hopes, Erasing the Past), militarisation, land, and reconciliation. Submits Congressional testimony on Sri Lanka appropriations and human-rights conditionality. Participates in UNHRC advocacy each March and September session. The case file's primary deference partner on Sinhalisation and land questions in the North-East.
tlte-cite:adayaalam-normalising-2017Quantifies Mullaitivu: at least 30,000 acres under military occupation; 1 soldier per 2 civilians; ~25% of the Sri Lankan Army in a district holding 0.6% of the national population — the structural data that anchors the post-war demographic-displacement reading. Numbers attributed to Adayaalam/PEARL, never to TLTE.
tlte-cite:hrw-crackdown-2024HRW documentation of police threats, intimidation, and detentions targeting Tamils commemorating the May 17, 2024 Mullivaikkal anniversary. Evidence that the post-2009 'reconciliation' architecture continues to criminalise Tamil mourning. Anchor for the case-suppression article on memorialisation suppression.
tlte-cite:ohchr-60-21-2025Most current UN comprehensive report on Sri Lanka. Documents that the post-2009 surveillance apparatus remains 'largely intact' under the NPP/AKD administration despite policy pledges; continuing PTA arrests; ongoing harassment of Tamil families of the disappeared, HRDs, and journalists. Primary Tier A anchor for surveillance/intimidation/PTA frames in Vadakkilangai. Velicham must cite specific paragraph numbers from the OHCHR PDF and never paraphrase from this gloss alone.
tlte-cite:iddrs-450-police-2021UN authoritative framework on civilian-police roles in DDR and post-conflict settings: separation of police from military functions, civilian oversight, community policing standards. Cited by TLTE as a NORMATIVE REFERENCE for what civilian policing should look like — never as a deployable blueprint. Sri Lanka has no UN peace operation; the standards are applied as a benchmark.
tlte-cite:adayaalam-normalisingGround-research on the day-to-day footprint of military presence in Mullaitivu — checkpoints, base sprawl, surveillance.
tlte-cite:icg-rebuilding-under-military-2012ICG Tier B foundational documentation: 'The Sri Lankan military's control over the political and economic life of the Northern Province is deepening the alienation and anger of northern Tamils and threatening sustainable peace.' Documents military penetration into civilian administration, economy, agriculture, fisheries, resettlement post-war. Structural baseline against which any 'civilian administration' proposal must be tested. 2012 data; PEARL 2017/2026 and Oakland 2021/2024 extend the timeline.
tlte-cite:hrw-why-cant-we-go-home-2018HRW's principal post-war investigation of military land occupation in Sri Lanka's North and East. Documents families unable to return to ancestral land due to military occupation, gazette-era titling irregularities, and bureaucratic obstruction at the Lands Commissioner. Tier B anchor for the 'administrative obstruction' frame distinct from physical occupation.