Inter-minority incitement & the enforcement gap

சிறுபான்மை இடையே — Tamil ↔ Muslim, audited together

A reader question keeps returning: "Isn't there also Muslim-Tamil tension? Aren't there Muslim accounts celebrating Tamil deaths online?" The honest answer is that there is a real, documented inter-minority record — running in both directions, across decades, shaped by deliberate state divide-and-rule — and the Charter-safe way to hold it is the same way the Reconciliation Audit Desk holds every other strand: audit the enforcement gap, not the community.

Now · Aarambam

A symmetrical citation-only mirror. Tamil-targeted and Muslim-targeted incitement are routed through the same Sinhala-majority Sri Lankan institutions. The 1990 expulsion of Northern Muslims is acknowledged at TLTE's own initiative — not as concession, as record.

Becoming · Nilaiththanmai

A standing civic submission into HRCSL, OHCHR Special Procedures (SR on Minority Issues + SR on Freedom of Opinion), and the EU GSP+ monitoring cycle — always alongside Eastern Muslim civil society, Up-country Tamil cooperatives, and Sri Lanka Muslim Council, never speaking for them.

Charter anchor — TLTE has already said this

The Tamil–Muslim record is not new ground for TLTE. It is already held in:

Canon · Tamil–Muslim Relations During the Sri Lankan Conflict — names state divide-and-rule, names the 1990 expulsion, rejects collective ethnic blame, rejects rewriting history.
MP Evidence Pack · 1990 Northern Muslim Expulsion — Westminster-ready. "Acknowledgement IS the political work. No whataboutism. Both files open."
The Demilitarisation Desk lists Eastern Muslim civil society and Up-country Tamil cooperatives among its named co-constituencies — not adversaries.

What this page refuses

·This page refuses the framing 'Muslim problem' or 'Muslims celebrate Tamil deaths'. Collective ethnic blame is incompatible with the TLTE Charter and erases the Eastern Muslim civil-society partners the Demilitarisation Desk explicitly lists as co-signatories.
·This page does not name individual social-media accounts, does not republish screenshots of incitement, and does not produce its own incident counts. All aggregate evidence routes through Hashtag Generation, Verité Research, HRCSL, CPA, ICG, MRG and OHCHR.
·This page does not treat Tamil-targeted and Muslim-targeted incitement asymmetrically. Both are unenforced obligations under the same statute (ICCPR Act §3) and the same treaty (ICERD Art 4).
·This page does not use inter-minority tension as whataboutism against state-violence accountability. The OISL 2015 record on state violence, and the 1990 record on LTTE violence, are both open files. Neither cancels the other.
·This page does not accept survivor reports. Anyone in immediate danger in the UK: 999 / Refuge 0808 2000 247. Survivor support routes via Magalir Avai signposting, not TLTE intake.

The paired record — what the cited monitors hold

The page presents the three columns the desk reads together. None of these are TLTE findings; all route to Tier-A monitors.

State / majoritarian incitement against minorities

· Aluthgama 2014 — anti-Muslim mobilisation and violence. Documented by ICG, MRG, CPA, Verité Research, Hashtag Generation.
· Digana 2018 — anti-Muslim attacks in Kandy district. Documented by HRCSL, CPA, MRG and the UN Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues.
· Post-Easter 2019 — anti-Muslim pogroms following the Easter Sunday attacks. Documented by HRCSL, OHCHR, ICG.
· Standing Tamil-targeted commemoration suppression and atrocity-denial — documented by Adayaalam, PEARL, ITJP, OHCHR OISL 2015, OHCHR A/HRC/60/21 (2025).

Inter-minority record (Tamil ↔ Muslim)

· 1990 LTTE expulsion of Northern Muslims — Jaffna, Mannar, Mullaitivu, Kilinochchi, Vavuniya. Acknowledged in TLTE's own MP Evidence Pack 'muslim-eviction-1990' and the canon page /tamil-muslim-relations. Tier-A anchors: OHCHR OISL 2015, ICG 'Sri Lanka's Muslims: Caught in the Crossfire' (2007), Sri Lanka Muslim Council, Citizens for Justice and Peace, CPA right-of-return studies.
· Eastern Province Tamil-Muslim co-residence — documented by Adayaalam multi-community Northern Province work and by Eastern Muslim civil-society organisations the Demilitarisation Desk lists as co-signatories.
· Sri Lankan-state divide-and-rule — arming of Muslim Home Guard units in the 1980s, informant networks, structural manipulation. Documented in TLTE canon /tamil-muslim-relations §'State divide-and-control tactics'.

Sinhala-majority institutional findings (credibility anchor)

· HRCSL — GANHRI A-status national human rights institution. Findings on hate-speech enforcement, custodial deaths, minority protection across both communities.
· CPA — independent Colombo institute. Post-2009 attitudinal data, ICCPR Act §3 enforcement asymmetry, constitutional analysis.
· Verité Research — independent Colombo think tank tracking anti-Tamil and anti-Muslim mobilisation in the same dataset.
· Hashtag Generation — accredited Sri Lankan digital-rights organisation. Meta Oversight Board engagement on majority-on-minority dehumanisation content across communities.

Why TLTE does not scrape social media for "Muslim accounts celebrating Tamil deaths"

Four reasons, all constitutional to the Unmai system (see the Seven Sins):

No naming. Publishing named accounts — even clearly incitatory ones — is perpetrator-naming outside an accredited indictment.
No aggregation. A TLTE-produced count is the wrong instrument; the cited instrument is Hashtag Generation + Verité Research + HRCSL.
Asymmetric framing risk. A page titled "Muslim hate against Tamils" without the paired Tamil-on-Muslim, state-on-Muslim, and 1990 records would be propaganda, not audit.
Routes the leverage wrong. The leverage point is Sri Lankan ICCPR Act §3 enforcement, EU GSP+ conditionality, and UK Online Safety Act 2023 scoping — not platform takedowns of individual accounts.

Readers with specific incitatory content to report should route to Hashtag Generation and the relevant platform's Trusted Flagger / Meta Oversight Board channel — never via TLTE.