Veli Studies · Archetypes

Seven Offices.

Composite figures, drawn from the Eelam record. Each archetype is anchored to three Tier-A citations and carries a stable Cite-ID. No combatant of any proscribed organisation is named on these plates.

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The Witness · சாட்சி

Eyes that refuse to forget.

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The Cartographer · வரைபடி

Memory rendered as map.

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The Hunger Striker · உண்ணாவிரதி

Body as last petition.

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The Cleric · அர்ச்சகர்

Sanctuary held under fire.

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The Journalist · செய்தியாளர்

Page kept open at the cost of life.

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The Mother · தாய்

Roadside vigil that became a movement.

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The Returnee · திரும்புபவர்

Skill carried back to the village.

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The Vow-Keeper · சபதக் காவலர்

The first to fall in a tradition she did not begin.

The Witness
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The Keeper of the Record · பதிவின் காவலர்

She wrote down what the state told her never happened.

An archivist of the unseen. Holds the village ledger of a single road, a single school, a single hospital wing across an era of silence. Her instrument is paper, repetition, and the courage to be boring.

Tier A · OHCHR OISL Report on Sri Lanka (2015) A/HRC/30/CRP.2Tier A · UN Panel of Experts Report on Accountability in Sri Lanka (2011)Tier A · ITJP — International Truth and Justice Project
The Cartographer
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The Cartographer of Disappearance · மறைந்தோர் வரைபடி

He turned ten thousand absences into a map only families could read.

Plots checkpoint coordinates, surrender points, holding sites — base-footprint resolution only, never personal location. The map is the petition.

Tier A · OHCHR — Enforced Disappearances in Sri LankaTier A · Amnesty International — Sri LankaTier A · ICG — Sri Lanka reports
The Hunger Striker
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The Hunger Striker's Witness · உண்ணாவிரதியின் சாட்சி

She counted the days because no court would.

Stands beside the body that has refused food. Records the bulletin no newspaper will print. Names the petition the strike was raising, not the striker's affiliation.

Tier A · Adayaalam Centre for Policy ResearchTier A · Tamil Guardian — coverage archiveTier A · ICG — Sri Lanka
The Cleric
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The Priest Who Rang the Bell · மணி அடித்த அர்ச்சகர்

He opened the church when the road closed.

Cleric of any tradition (Catholic, Hindu, Muslim, Methodist) who held sanctuary under fire. Sanctuary as legal posture, not heroism. The bell is the citation.

Tier A · OHCHR OISL (2015) — protected sites sectionTier A · UN PoE (2011) §§ on shelling of hospitals and No Fire ZonesTier A · ICRC — IHL on places of worship and medical units
The Journalist
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The Page That Stayed Open · திறந்திருந்த பக்கம்

She filed copy the morning after the threat letter.

Local-language reporter who kept publishing through abductions, white-van warnings, and printing-press fires. Read alongside CPJ, RSF, and Adayaalam records.

Tier A · Committee to Protect Journalists — Sri LankaTier A · Reporters Without Borders — Sri LankaTier A · Adayaalam — Press Freedom monitoring
The Mother
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The Mother at the Roadside · வீதியில் நின்ற தாய்

She held a photograph until governments learned its name.

The mothers and wives of the disappeared who have held continuous vigil at northern and eastern roadsides across an era. Read via the Office of Missing Persons file, ITJP, and OHCHR Special Procedures.

Tier A · OHCHR — Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary DisappearancesTier A · ITJP — International Truth and Justice ProjectTier A · Mannar / Kilinochchi / Vavuniya vigil — Adayaalam reports
The Returnee
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The Returning Graduate · திரும்பும் பட்டதாரி

She brought the textbook the country had banned for her parents.

Diaspora-trained civilian who returns to teach, code, nurse, build, audit. Skill is the petition. The Graduate Return Index reads this archetype at population scale.

Tier A · Tamil Centre for Independent Studies — diaspora education researTier A · Sri Lanka Brief — education and return analysesTier A · Adayaalam Centre for Policy Research
The Vow-Keeper
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The First to Fall · முதல் வீழ்ந்தவள்

An archetype of the women's combatant tradition — read as phenomenon, never as individual.

An archetype, not a person. Studied through Tier-A scholarship on the women's-wing tradition within the Eelam armed era: its political economy, its grief economy, and the long-running debate over agency versus coercion. The archetype is honoured here precisely because it cannot be honoured as a name on a public plate under UK Terrorism Act 2000 s.13. The plate records the tradition; the named operational record is sealed in Vault RB-13.

Tier A · Miranda Alison — Women and Political Violence (Routledge 2009)Tier A · Adele Ann Balasingham — Women Fighters of Liberation Tigers (199Tier A · OHCHR OISL Report on Sri Lanka (2015) A/HRC/30/CRP.2Tier A · UN Panel of Experts on Accountability in Sri Lanka (2011)Tier A · Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake — gender & conflict in Sri Lanka (

The full roster of 42 archetypes is sealed in Vault RB-13. The seven seed archetypes above are the public study set for the Aarambam era. Additional archetypes are released only after Continuity Council review.

Five Refusals · permanent law
  1. No proscribed iconography. No LTTE flag, no LTTE composite emblem (roaring tiger head + crossed rifles + bayonets + bullet ring), no LTTE wordmark, no uniform insignia, no rank tabs, no martyr-cult framing. The Chola Puli Koḍi (c. 9th–13th c. CE), Sangam-era tiger imagery, hero-stone (naṭukal) tradition, and the mūvēndar triad (tiger · fish · bow) are civilisational symbols that pre-date the LTTE by ~1,100 years and are permitted — see /veli-studies/iconography/puli-kodi.
  2. No randomised atrocity draws. Atrocity events appear only in fixed, curated, cited study sequences — never in a randomised, gamified, or 'pack-pull' context on any public surface.
  3. No cash-out, no wagering. Min stays a non-tradable contribution marker. No secondary market is endorsed. No chance-for-prize loop is ever published.
  4. No naming proscribed combatants on plates. Combatants appear only as Archetypes & Offices anchored to Tier-A citations. Real names are retained only for non-violent figures — clerics, journalists, lawyers, doctors, mothers of the disappeared — with full citation.
  5. Sealed operational layer. No rules text, stat blocks, deck-builder, pack art, or marketplace appears on any public route. The operational layer is sealed in Vault RB-13 behind Founder + 4-of-7 trustee unwrap.