The external supply ledger

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The war on the island was not supplied from the island. Aircraft, artillery, small arms, ammunition, credit and training arrived from third states and commercial vendors across the basin and beyond, and much of that arrival is on the public record — in transfer databases, parliamentary answers, procurement disclosures and peer-reviewed scholarship.

The ledger records what published sources say was transferred. It does not allege criminal responsibility by any state, and it never treats a transfer entry as a verdict.

Now · Aarambam

Published as a pointer ledger to existing transfer databases and scholarship. TLTE compiles no transfer figures of its own and runs no procurement tracking.

Becoming · Nilaiththanmai

Arms-transfer transparency becomes a standing question inside accountability processes rather than an afterthought. TLTE still only cites; the compiling stays with SIPRI, UNROCA, parliaments and researchers.

The record

Registers
The UN Register of Conventional Arms and the SIPRI Arms Transfers Database are the two standing public instruments for state-to-state transfers. Both are searchable by recipient and year.
Sustained suppliers
Scholarship and reporting on the conflict describe Pakistan and China as major sustained suppliers of materiel and munitions to the Sri Lankan armed forces, alongside transfers and services from other states and commercial vendors.
Final-phase period
Reporting and parliamentary material covering the 2006–2009 period address deliveries, credit lines and training during the phase in which the Tier-A accountability findings arise.
Non-state procurement
The LTTE's own maritime procurement and shipping network is documented in published scholarship and court records in several jurisdictions. It belongs in the same ledger; a one-sided supply file is not a ledger.
Arms Trade Treaty
The ATT (in force 2014) sets export-assessment obligations for states parties. It is prospective, not retrospective, and is cited here as the standing legal frame — not as a claim about past transfers.

Anchors

SIPRI
Arms Transfers Database
The standard open dataset for state-to-state major conventional arms transfers by recipient and year.
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United Nations
UN Register of Conventional Arms (UNROCA)
State-submitted annual returns on imports and exports of conventional arms.
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United Nations
Arms Trade Treaty (ATT)
Export-assessment obligations for states parties; prospective in effect.
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UN OHCHR
OISL (2015) and the UN Panel of Experts report (2011)
The accountability findings against which the supply period is read.
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Peer-reviewed scholarship
Studies of external support and procurement in the Sri Lankan conflict
Academic treatments of state supply relationships and of insurgent maritime procurement.
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Refusals on this file

·Never assert that a supplying state is legally responsible for violations — publication of a transfer is not a finding of liability.
·Never name individual officials, brokers, crew, or company employees.
·Never publish our own transfer tonnages, unit counts, or valuations — cite SIPRI, UNROCA, parliaments and scholarship.
·Never present the ledger one-sidedly: insurgent procurement is recorded alongside state procurement.
·Never use the ledger to argue for, model, or justify any acquisition of materiel by anyone.

Ocean Ring Desk · Aarambam · citation-only · institution-level sources only

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