The Impunity Spine

தண்டனை இல்லாமை — Thandanai Illaamai

Impunity is the thread that runs through every Unmai desk. It is not owned by any single desk because it is not a single subject — it is the structural mechanism gap between an established factual record (UN PoE 2011, OHCHR OISL 2015) and the absence of credible domestic prosecution. This hub names that mechanism gap and points to the desks where each dimension is evidenced.

Now · Aarambam

A cited cross-walk between the international accountability record and the desks where its non-implementation surfaces. No tribunal, no prosecution, no naming, no counts in TLTE voice.

Becoming · Nilaiththanmai

A standing civic file used to brief Westminster, UN treaty bodies, and diaspora MPs on the mechanism gap — always alongside, never instead of, OHCHR, OMP, ITJP and PEARL.

Hard rules

·Never relitigates the established factual record. The UN Panel of Experts (2011) and OHCHR OISL (2015) findings are treated as referenced, not re-argued.
·Never names a serving Sri Lankan minister, military officer, or police officer. Refers only to the office, the institution, or the published finding.
·Never produces its own count of deaths, disappearances, or prosecutions. Numbers route to the cited Tier-A source verbatim.
·Never claims TLTE is an accountability mechanism. This hub is a cited mechanism-audit, not a tribunal, not a prosecutor, not a substitute for OHCHR, OMP, or any UN process.
·Always pairs Tamil-source evidence with a Sinhala-majority Sri Lankan institutional source (HRCSL, CPA, Verité) so the finding cannot be dismissed as Tamil grievance.
·Always frames the ask as 'unmet international obligation', not 'punish Sri Lanka'. The audit is of a mechanism gap, not a people.

Mechanism timeline · LLRC → HRC 51/1

2010LLRC established
Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission. Amnesty 2011 documents its lack of independence, weak witness protection, and failure to investigate credible war-crimes allegations.
tlte-cite:amnesty-justice-2011
2011UN Panel of Experts report
Darusman / Ratner / Sooka. Credible allegations of war crimes and crimes against humanity in the final stages. The foundational accountability finding — never converted into a mechanism.
tlte-cite:un-poe-2011
2015OHCHR OISL · A/HRC/30/CRP.2
The authoritative UN investigation. Documented patterns of violations by state forces and the LTTE. The factual record against which every subsequent non-implementation is measured.
tlte-cite:ohchr-oisl-2015
2015HRC Resolution 30/1 (co-sponsored by Sri Lanka)
Sri Lanka co-sponsors a resolution committing to OISL follow-through, hybrid court with international judges, OMP, Truth Commission, Reparations Office. Most commitments unfulfilled.
tlte-cite:ohchr-oisl-2015
2017Office on Missing Persons (OMP) established
OMP becomes operational. ITJP, PEARL and family associations have repeatedly documented its under-resourcing, non-prosecution mandate, and family-association concerns.
tlte-cite:itjp-stop-humanity
2021HRC Resolution 46/1 — non-cooperation finding
HRC notes Sri Lanka's withdrawal from co-sponsorship of HRC 30/1 and the deterioration of the accountability environment. Establishes the OHCHR Sri Lanka Accountability Project.
tlte-cite:ohchr-oisl-2015
2022HRC Resolution 51/1 — evidence preservation mandate
Strengthens the OHCHR Sri Lanka Accountability Project. Funds evidence collection and preservation for future accountability proceedings — the live international pressure point.
tlte-cite:unhrc-51-1
PresentStanding impunity gap
No domestic prosecution of any senior figure for events documented in OISL 2015. The Sri Lankan state position on accountability is contested by HRCSL, CPA, ITJP, PEARL and successive UN High Commissioners.
tlte-cite:icj-srilanka-impunity